Reviews in Brief
2011
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
Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison
Author: Jane A. Siegel
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 288p.
Reviewer: Beth E. Adubato | November 2011
International Crime in the 20th Century: The League of Nation’s Era, 1919-1930
Author: Paul Knepper
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 256p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | November 2011
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting
Author: Rachel Shteir
New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2011.256p.
Reviewer: Brian T. Smith | November 2011
