Reviews in Brief
2017

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)

October

Crime, The Mystery Of The Common-Sense Concept

Author: Robert Reiner
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016. 246p.
Reviewers: Brandon Dulisse and Megan Travers | October 2017

Police Use Of Force: Important Issues Facing The Police And The Communities They Serve

Editor: Michael J. Palmiotto
Publisher: New York, NY: CRC Press, 2017. 196p.
Reviewer: Sheryl L. Van Horne | October 2017

Criminal Genius: A Portrait Of High-Iq Offenders

Author: James C. Oleson
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. 300p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | October 2017

Coercion And Women Co-Offenders: A Gendered Pathway Into Crime

Author: Charlotte Barlow
Publisher: Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL: Policy Press, “Shorts” Research series, 2016. 106p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | October 2017

Migrant Deaths In The Arizona Desert: La Vida No Vale Nada

Editors: Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Celestino Fernández, Jessie K. Finch, and Araceli Masterson-Algar
Publisher: Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016. 302 p.
Reviewer: Nicolás Eilbaum | October 2017

July

Deserved Criminal Sentences: An Overview

Author: Andreas von Hirsch
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing. 192p.
Reviewer: Julian V. Roberts | July 2017

Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency

Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 268p.
Reviewer: Steve Tombs | July 2017

Plural Policing: Theory and Practice

Author: Colin Rogers
Publisher: Bristol, UK; Chicago: University of Chicago Press: Policy Press, 2017. 184p.
Reviewer: Frank Leishman | July 2017

Multiple Injustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle In Latin America

Author: R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher: Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2016. 328p.
Reviewer: Kathleen M. McIntyre | July 2017

To Protect and to Serve: How To Fix America’s Police

Author: Norm Stamper
Publisher: New York: Nations Books, 2016. 294p.
Reviewer: Robert Costello | July 2017

Provisional Authority: Police, Order, And Security In India

Author: Beatrice Jauregui
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 240p.
Reviewer: John Tahiliani | July 2017

May

Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective

Editors: Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2016. 184p.
Reviewers: Eleonora Rossi and Marieke Liem | May 2017

Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography

Author: Amalia Ziv
Publisher: Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. 312p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | May 2017

The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice, and Reform

Editors: Bin Liang and Hong Lu
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 362p.
Reviewer: Stephen Noakes | May 2017

Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference

Author: Julie Ham
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 176p.
Reviewer: Teela Sanders | May 2017

March

Down, Out And Under Arrest: Policing And Everyday Life In Skid Row

Author: Forrest Stuart
Publisher: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 352p.
Reviewer: Laura Huey | March 2017

Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime And Social Control: Essays In Honor Of Professor Dick Hobbs

Editor: Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Publisher: New York: Springer, 2016. 360p.
Reviewer: Jay Albanese | March 2017

Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, And Realities

Authors: Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. 239p.
Reviewer: Eric Madfis | March 2017

Contraband: Smuggling And The Birth Of The American Century

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
Publisher: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 402p.
Reviewer: Christopher P. Magra | March 2017

The Role Of Prison In Europe: Travelling In The Footsteps Of John Howard

Author: Tom Vander Beken
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 243p.
Reviewer: Pieter Spierenburg | March 2017

Islamist Terrorism In Europe: A History

Author: Peter Nesser
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 371p.
Reviewer: David Schultz | March 2017

Young Offenders: Crime, Prison And Struggles For Desistance

Authors: Mark Halsey and Simone Deegan
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 274p.
Reviewer: Briege Nugent | March 2017

Social Control Of Sex Offenders: A Cultural History

Author: D. Richard Laws
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 287p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | March 2017

January

CHALLENGING THE MAFIA MYSTIQUE: COSA NOSTRA FROM LEGITIMIZATION TO DENUNCIATION

Author: Rino Coluccello
Publisher: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 260p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | January 2017

POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY

Authors: Bryn Caless and Jane Owens
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Policy Press (distributed in the U.S. by the University of Chicago Press), 2016. 256p.
Reviewer: Jonathon A. Cooper | January 2017

HANDCUFFED: WHAT HOLDS POLICING BACK, AND THE KEYS TO REFORM

Author: Malcolm Sparrow
Publisher: Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016. 262p.
Reviewer: Cory Schnell | January 2017

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE LIMITS OF WESTERN INFLUENCE, 1850-2000

Editor: Heather Ellis
Publisher: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 280p.
Reviewer: William S. Bush | January 2017

THE 9/11 TERROR CASES: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES IN THE WAR AGAINST AL QAEDA

Author: Allan A. Ryan
Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 240p.
Reviewer: Rebecca Kunkel  | January 2017

THE PROBLEM OF PLEASURE: LEISURE, TOURISM, AND CRIME

Editors: Carol Jones, Elaine Barclay and Rob Mawby
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 247p.
Reviewer: Kim H. Williams | January 2017

PREVENTING CRIME: A HOLISTIC APPROACH

Author: Tore Bjørgo
Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 322p.
Reviewer: Nick Tilley | January 2017

MENTAL HEALTH, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: RESPONSES AND REFORMS

Editor: Jane Winstone
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 301p.
Reviewer: Kayla G. Jachimowski | January 2017

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