Reviews in Brief
2015
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
Being Imprisoned: Punishment, Adaptation and Desistance
Author: Marguerite Schinkel
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 192p.
Reviewer: Naomi Couto | November 2015
New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law
Editors: Lynn Comella, L. and Shira Tarrant
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. 465p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek │ November 2015
The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Editor: Steven C. RichardsPublisher: Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. 336p.Reviewer: Richard L. Lippke | November 2015
September
Citizens Enforcing the Law: The Legal and Social Space for Citizen’s Arrest
Author: Astrid Bosch
Publisher: Portland: Maklu, 2013. 179 p.
Reviewer: Russ Immarigeon | September 2015
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696
Author: Maria R. Boes
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 292p.
Reviewer: Jason P. Coy | September 2015
Gangland New York: The Places and Faces of Mob History
Author: Anthony M. DeStefano
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 202p.
Reviewer: Jay Albanese | September 2015
Police Leaders in the New Community Problem-Solving Era
Author: Michael J. Jenkins and John DeCarlo
Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. 220p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | September 2015
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Editor: Jay S. Albanese
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. 2,760 p.
Reviewer: Harry R. Dammer | September 2015
July
Accountability by Camera: Online Video’s Effects on Police-Civilian Interactions
Author: Douglas A. Kelly
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014. 300p.
Reviewer: Mike Miller | July 2015
Inter-War Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot, 1932
Author: Alyson Brown
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 208p.
Reviewer: Barry Godfrey| July 2015
Media Representations of Police and Crime: Shaping the Police Television Drama
Author: Marianne Colbran
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 272p.
Reviewer: Frank Leishman | July 2015
May
Anti-Bribery Laws in Common Law Jurisdictions
Author: Stuart H. Deming
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 496p.
Reviewer: Jonathan Mukwiri | May 2015
New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law
Editors: Lynn Comella and Shira Tarrant
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC., 2015. 465p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | May 2015
Regulating Corporate Bribery in International Business: Anti-Corruption in the UK and Germany
Author: Nicholas Lord
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 214p.
Reviewer: Jonathan Mukwiri | May 2015
Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change, or Control?
Editors: Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, and John Deering
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 368p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | May 2015
Trends in Policing: Interviews with Police Leaders Across the Globe, Volume Four
Editors: Bruce F. Baker and Dilip K. Das
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014. 277p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | May 2015
March
Violence Against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform
Author: Carol E. Jordan
Publisher: Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. 480p.
Reviewer: Jessica Schmidt
Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey
Author: Ryan Gingeras
Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 320p.
Reviewer: Sule Toktas | March 2015
The International Law of Migrant Smuggling
Authors: Anne T. Gallagher and Fiona David
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 794p.
Reviewer: Anna Triandafyllidou | March 2015
The Losing War: Plan Colombia and Beyond
Author: Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher: Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014. 200p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | March 2015
The Methamphetamine Industry in America: Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs
Authors: Henry R. Brownstein, Timothy M. Mulcahy, and Johannes Huessy.
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 172p.
Reviewer: Ralph A. Weisheit | March 2015
January
Environmental Harm: An Eco-Justice Perspective
Author: Rob White
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2013. 216p.
Reviewer: Christopher J. Moloney | January 2015
Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
Author: José Angel N.
Publisher: Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 136p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | January 2015
Preventing Corruption: Investigation, Enforcement and Governance
Authors: Graham Brooks, David Walsh, Chris Lewis and Hakkyong Kim
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 232p.
Reviewer: Ainsley D. Elbra | January 2015
