Reviews in Brief
2014
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
Battered Women Doing Time: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System
Author: Rachel Zimmer Schneider
Publisher: Boulder, CO: First Forum Press, 2013. 153p.
Reviewer: Donileen R. Loseke | November 2014
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice
Edited by Franklin E. Zimring and David Tanenhaus
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2014, 256p.
Reviewer: Barry Krisberg | November 2014
Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics, and Public Opinion
Editors: Roger Hood and Surya Deva
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 336p.
Reviewer: Stephen Noakes | November 2014
Criminal Judges: Legitimacy, Courts and State-Induced Guilty Pleas in Britain
Author: Mike McConville and Luke Marsh
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014, 320p.
Reviewer: Michael Zander | November 2014
Made Men: Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals, and Myth
Authors: Antonio Nicaso and Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. 182p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | November 2014
Prisoner Reentry Programs: Penetrating the Black Box for Better Theory and Practice
Author: Eric L. Grommon
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2013. 230p.
Reviewer: Jesse Jannetta | November 2014
September
Honor-Based Violence: Policing and Prevention
Authors: Karl Anton Roberts, Gerry Campbell, and Glen Lloyd
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014. 194p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | September 2014
Policing in Africa
Editor: David Francis
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 232p.
Reviewer: Binneh S. Minteh | September 2014
Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Authors: Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 216p.
Reviewer: George C. Thomas III | September 2014
July
Ideologically Motivated Murder: The Threat Posed by White Supremacist Groups
Author: David J. Caspi
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2013. 207p.
Reviewer: Jennifer Varriale Carson, Ph.D. | July 2014
Police Culture: Adapting to the Strains of the Job
Authors: Eugene A. Paoline III and William Terrill
Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 194p.
Reviewer: Michael J. Jenkins | July 2014
Policing Digital Crime
Editors: Robin Bryant and Sarah Bryant
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. 258p.
Reviewer: Peter Grabosky | July 2014
The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and Criminal Justice
Author: Andrew L-T Choo
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR:Hart Publishing, 2013. 180p.
Reviewer: George C. Thomas III | July 2014
May
Getting By or Getting Rich? The Formal, Informal and Criminal Economy in a Globalized World
Author: Pietro Saitta, Joanna Shapland, and Antoniette Verhage (Eds.)
Publisher: The Hague, Eleven International Publishing, The Green Grass / Het groene gras Series, 2013, 422p.
Reviewer: Anita Lavorgna | May 2014
The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence
Author: Marvin Dunn
Publisher: Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2013. 240p.
Reviewer: William D. Carrigan | May 2014
When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault
Authors: Phillip W. Cook and Tammy L. Hodo
Publisher: Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA,. Praeger, 2013. 193p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | May 2014
March
The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy
Authors: Wesley Kendall and Joseph M. Siracusa
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013. 226p.
Reviewer: Nicholas Petersen | March 2014
Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
Author: Jaime J. Fader
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. 256p.
Reviewer: Robert Costello | March 2014
Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast
Author: Anita Lam
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon: UK; New York: Routledge, 2014. 224p.
Reviewer: Drew Humphries | March 2014
On the Outside: From Lengthy Imprisonment to Lasting Freedom
Authors: Melissa Munn and Chris Bruckert
Publisher: Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2013. 240p.
Reviewer: Voula Marinos | March 2014
Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives
Author: Duncan Chappell
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2013. 381p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | March 2014
January
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
Author: Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher: Cambridge, UK, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 503p.
Reviewer: Jeffrey S. Hardy | January 2014
Municipal Policing in the European Union: Comparative Perspectives
Author: Daniel Donnelly
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 240p.
Reviewer : Thomas Feltes | January 2014
Unleashed: The Phenomena of Status Dogs and Weapon Dogs
Author: Simon Harding
Publisher: Bristol, UK: The Policy Press, 2012. 286p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | January 2014
