Capital punishment update

Following a short hiatus in the 1970s, capital punishment has regained its position as the most reactionary social policy in America. In the Supreme ...

On capital punishment

In view of the resurgence of capital punishment in the United States we thought MR readers might be interested in Marx's observations in a dispatch from him that appeared in the New York Daily Trib

Prisons and Executions—the U.S. Model: A Historical Introduction - Editorial

by the Editors The United States incarcerates five to eight times more of its people per capita than Western European nations-though its crime rates ...

The Death Penalty and Globalization in Nigeria, the United States, and Europe

Introduction The most ominous social phenomena shaping the U.S. political economy in the 1980s and 1990s have undoubtedly been: (1) the mass incarceration ...

Scarcity of what and for whom?

Michael Perelman, The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 224 pages, hardcover ...

Lawyers, Jails, and the Law's Fake Bargains

Assume that Canada and the Western European countries have about the right number of people in jail. Assume that the social problem of crime is not terribly different in those countries than in the

Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience. - book reviews

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a major popularizer of revolution. Although the conditions for his notoriety were very much imposed upon him, he makes the best possible ...

Aspects of the struggle - analysis of different segments of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement

ASPECTS OF THE STRUGGLE In late August 1985 the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) was outlawed by Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange.

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. - book reviews

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, by Peter Linebaugh. Cambridge: New York, 1993, 484 pp., 27.95, hardcover, $16.95 ...

Red Hunting in the Promised Land. - book reviews

This is the kind of book that Joel Kovel was bound to write some day. His training and talents, his background, and his political commitment make him ...

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