Reviews in Brief
2012
This part of the site is intended to broaden the scope of our coverage, and to encourage contributions from students and practitioners. Reviews in brief will be approximately 500 words in length. Books to be considered for review should have been published in the past two years. For further guidance or to prepare a review for publication, please contact one of the co-editors:
James Finckenauer (Criminal Justice)
Stuart Green (Criminal Law)
Previous Editions
November
Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs
Author: Isaac Campos
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 331p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | November 2012
Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty?
Authors: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Austin Sarat, eds.
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 334p.
Reviewer: Leigh Grossman | November 2012
Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists
Author: Hitha PrabhakarPublisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press, 2012. 316p.Reviewer: Gohar A. Petrossian | November 2012
September
GANGS IN AMERICA’S COMMUNITIES
Author: James C. Howell
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012. 347p.
Reviewer: Eric G. Lesneskie | September 2012
IDENTITY THIEVES: MOTIVES AND METHODS
Authors: Heith Copes and Lynne M. Vieraitis
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. 174p.
Reviewer: Cory Schnell | September 2012
LAST DAY ON EARTH: A PORTRAIT OF THE NIU SCHOOL SHOOTER
Authors: David Vann
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 167p.
Reviewer: Rucha Tatke | September 2012
LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION: FROM ILLICIT VICE TO LAWFUL BUSINESS
Author: Ronald Weitzer
New York, NY: New York University Press, 2011. 296p.
Reviewer: Samuel DeWitt | September 2012
PUBLIC SECURITY IN THE NEGOTIATED STATE: POLICING IN LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND
Author: Markus-Michael Muller
Publisher: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 269p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | September 2012
SERIAL KILLERS: PSYCHIATRY, CRIMINOLOGY, RESPONSIBILITY
Author: Francesca Biagi-Chai
New York, NY: Routledge, 2011. 296p.
Reviewer: Jaclyn Schildkraut | September 2012
July
THE BULLY SOCIETY: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND THE CRISIS OF BULLYING IN AMERICA’S SCHOOLS
Author: Jessie Klein
New York: New York University Press, 2012. 318p.
Reviewer: Lisa De La Rue | July 2012
HOMIES AND HERMANOS: GOD AND GANGS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Author: Robert Brenneman
New York: Oxford University Press,2012. 294p.
Reviewer: Andrew S. Denney | July 2012
SEX FIENDS, PERVERTS, AND PEDOPHILES: UNDERSTANDING SEX CRIME POLICY IN AMERICA
Author: Leon, Chrysanthi S.
New York: New York University Press, 2011. 253 p.
Reviewer: David Patrick Connor | July 2012
UNSPEAKABLE VIOLENCE: REMAPPING U.S. AND MEXICAN NATIONAL IMAGINARIES
Author: Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 374p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | July 2012
May
ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS: OUTLAWS, CRIME AND CULTURE
Author: Martin Parker
New York: Routledge, 2011. 192p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | May 2012
THE FERTILE SOIL OF JIHAD: TERRORISM’S PRISON CONNECTION
Author: Patrick T. Dunleavy
Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2011. 143 p.
Reviewer: Brittany E. Hayes | May 2012
PUNISHED: POLICING THE LIVES OF BLACK AND LATINO BOYS
Author: Victor Rios
New York: New York University Press, 2011. 218p.
Reviewer: Madeleine Novich | May 2012
WOMEN AND HEROIN ADDICTION IN CHINA’S CHANGING SOCIETY
Author: Huan Gao
New York: Routledge, 2011. 201p.
Reviewer: Dina Perrone | May 2012
March
Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus
Author: Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Publisher: Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011. 217p.
Reviewer: Cory Schnell | March 2012
The Constitutional Rights of Children: In re Gault and Juvenile Justice
Author: David S. Tanenhaus
Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 152p.
Reviewer: Patricia Cantara | March 2012
Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Author: David M. Kennedy
Publisher: New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. 320p.
Reviewer: Brian T. Smith | March 2012
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
Author: Koritha Mitchell
Publisher: Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, The New Black Studies Series, 2011. 272p.
Reviewer: Beth Adubato | March 2012
Overcoming the Magnetism of Street Life: Crime-Engaged Youth and the Programs that Transform Them
Author: Trevor Milton
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 162p.
Reviewer: Victoria A. Sytsma | March 2012
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
Authors: Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 241p.
Reviewer: Stacy Hauck | March 2012
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
Author: B.J. Hollars
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2011. 237 p.
Reviewer: William M. Anderson Jr. | March 2012
Contemporary Maritime Piracy: International Law, Strategy and Diplomacy at Sea
Author: James Kraska
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011. 253p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | February 2012
January
Transnational Environmental Crime: Toward an Eco-global Criminology
Author: Rob White
New York, NY: Routledge, 2011. 192p.
William D. Moreto | January 2012
The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System
Author: Michael Berryhill
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011. 244p.
Reviewer: Jordan Rubin | December 2011
