Reviews in Brief
2013
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
Guilty By Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Author: Bill Osinski
Publisher: Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2012. 179p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | November 2013
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler
Author: Robert Sberna
Publisher: Kent, OH: Black Squirrel Books, 2012. 216p
Reviewer: Jessica Schmidt | November 2013
Imprisoned Religion: Transformations of Religion During and After Imprisonment in Eastern Germany
Author: Irene Becci
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 199p.
Reviewer: Sophie Gilliat-Ray | November 2013
Offender Reentry: Beyond Crime and Punishment
Authors: Elaine Gunnison and Jaqueline B. Helfgott
Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2013. 241p.
Reviewer: John R. Turner | November 2013
The Immorality of Punishment
Author: Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher: Peterborough, ONT.; Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press, 2011. 183p.
Reviewer: Kurt Fowler | November 2013
The Murder Mystique: Female Killers and Pop Culture
Authors: Laurie Nalepo and Richard Pfefferman
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013. 177p.
Reviewer: Jaclyn Schildkraut | November 2013
The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus: An Alliance of International Drug Cartels, Organized Crime, and Terror Groups
Author: Jennifer L. Hesterman
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2013. 351p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | November 2013
September
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Author: Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer
Publisher: New York: The New Press, 2013. 128 p.
Reviewer: Bonita M. Veysey and Kito Davison | September 2013
Right-Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorist Threat is Being Ignored
Author: Daryl Johnson
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 422 p.
Reviewer: Brittany E. Hayes | September 2013
Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500
Author: Caroline Dunn
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 272 p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | September 2013
July
Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C
Authors: Laura S. Abrams and Ben Anderson-Nathe
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 169p.
Reviewer: Melissa Smith | July 2013
Disrupting Dark Networks
Author: Sean F. Everton
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 482p.
Reviewer: Anita Lavorgna | July 2013
Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection & Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction
Author: Elena Past
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 345p.
Reviewer: Giorgio Ravagli | July 2013
On the Account: Piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835
Author: Joseph Gibbs
Publisher: Eastbourne, UK; Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. 249p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | July 2013
Real-Life Monsters: A Psychological Examination of the Serial Murderer
Author: Stephen J. Giannangelo
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012. 193p.
Reviewer: Jaclyn Schildkraut | July 2013
Resilience & the City: Change, (Dis)Order and Disaster
Author: Peter Rogers
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 211p.
Reviewer: Vania Ceccato | July 2013
Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings (Citizenship and Migration in the Americas)
Author: Steven W. Bender
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 224p.
Reviewer: David Hatten | July 2013
Special Sensitivity? The White-Collar Offender in Prison
Author: William A. Stadler
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2012. 180p.
Reviewer: Jessica Schmidt | July 2013
The Art of the Internet: A Study of Illegal Online Trading in Cultural Goods
Authors: Tom van Ham, Rutger Leukfeldt, Bo Bremmers, Wouter Stol and Anton van Wijk
Publisher: The Hague, Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 2011. 126 p.
Reviewer: Julie Viollaz | July 2013
May
5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, And The War On Drugs
Author: Dimitri A. Bogazianos
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 206p.
Reviewer: Steven Block | May 2013
BEYOND COLD BLOOD: THE KBI FROM MA BARKER TO BTK
Author: Larry Welch
Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 292p.
Reviewer: Jaclyn Schildkraut | May 2013
The Death Of The American Death Penalty: States Still Leading The Way
Authors: Larry W. Koch, Colin Wark and John F. Galliher
Publisher: Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. 256p.
Reviewer: Nicholas Petersen | May 2013
The International Crime Drop: New Directions In Research
Editors: Jan van Dijk, Andromachi Tseloni and Graham Farrell
Publisher: London; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 360p.
Reviewer: Franklin E. Zimring | May 2013
Lone Wolf Terror And The Rise Of Leaderless Resistance
Author: George Michael
Publisher: Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. 264p.
Reviewer: Emma Sinclair | May 2013
Mexico: Democracy Interrupted
Author: Jo Tuckman
Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. 328p.
Reviewer: Howard Campbell | May 2013
One Country, Two Systems: Cross-Border Crime Between Hong Kong And China
Author: Kam C. Wong
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers, 2012. 233p.
Reviewer: Peng Wang | May 2013
Pathways For Offender Reentry: An Aca Reader
Editors: Russ Immarigeon and Larry M. Fehr
Publisher: Alexandria, VA: American Correctional Association, 2012. 285p.
Reviewer: Janet Garcia | May 2013
Sport, Violence And Society
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2012. 220p.
Reviewer: Sam Bieler | May 2013
Witches, Wife Beaters, And Whores: Common Law And Common Folk In Early America
Author: Elaine Forman Crane
Publisher: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 278p.
Reviewer: Nigel J. Cohen | May 2013
March
Fear and Crime in Latin America: Redefining State-Society Relations
Author: Lucia Dammert
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2012. 196p.
Reviewer: Mary Etienne | March 2013
Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder: International Cooperation against Illicit Trade
Author: Asif Efrat
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 384p.
Reviewer: Marissa Mandala | March 2013
In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Authors: Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 256p.
Reviewer: Bonita M. Veysey | March 2013
Juvenile Homicide: Fatal Assault or Lethal Intent?
Author: Raquel Maria Warley
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2011. 191p.
Reviewer: Patricia Cantara | March 2013
Policing and Security in Practice: Challenges and Achievements
Editor: Tim Prenzler, ed.
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 256p.
Reviewer: Walter Campbell | March 2013
Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing: Prejudice and Discrimination in the Jury
Author: Jamie L. Flexon
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2012. 176p.
Reviewer: Janet Garcia | March 2013
January
Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform
Author: Hans Toch Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2012. 188p. Reviewer: Tim Prenzler | January 2013
Enforcing the Convict Code: Prison Violence and Prison Culture
Author: Rebecca Trammell Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. 157p. Reviewer: Patricia Hardyman │ January 2013
Illicit Trade and the Global Economy
Authors: C. Costa Storti and P. De Grauwe, eds. Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. 266p. Reviewer: Leonid Lantsman | January 2013
Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society
Author: Elaine Jeffreys Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 196 p.Reviewer: Tiantian Zheng | January 2013
Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. 256p. Reviewer: Sam Bieler | January 2013
Tax Evasion and the Shadow Economy
Authors: Michael Pickhardt and Aloys Prinz, eds. Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 2012. 200p. Reviewer: Friedrich Schneider | January 2013
