Full Reviews
2015
Previous Editions
November
An Eye for an Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment
Author: Michael P. Roth.
Publisher:London: Reaktion Books, 2015. 342p.
Reviewer: Wilbur Miller | November 2015
Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration
Author: Dominique Moran
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. 185p.
Reviewer: Ian O’Donnell | November 2015
Congress and Crime: The Impact of Federalization of State Criminal Laws
Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 165p.
Reviewer: Craig Hemmens | November 2015
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Author: Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher: Charlottesville, VA; London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 280p.
Reviewer: Laura Kounine | November 2015
Force & Marriage: The Criminalisation of Forced Marriage in Dutch, English and International Criminal Law
Author: Iris Haenen
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Intersentia, 2014. 403p.
Reviewer: Khatidja Chantler | November 2015
Human Smuggling and Border Crossings
Author: Gabriella E. Sanchez
London; New York: Routledge, 2015. 160p.
Reviewer: Kimberly Mathis Pitts | November 2015
Offending and Desistance: The Importance of Social Relations
Author: Beth Weaver
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2016. 274p.
Reviewer: April Bernard | November 2015
Police Corruption: Essential Readings
Editor: Leslie Holmes
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. 674p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | November 2015
State Terrorism and Post-transitional Justice in Argentina: An Analysis of Mega Cause I Trial
Author: Coreen Davis
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 95p.
Reviewer: Saskia van Drunen | November 2015
The Forgotten Men: Serving a Life without Parole Sentence
Author: Margaret E. Leigey
Publisher: New Brunswick; London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 242p.
Reviewer: William W. Berry III | November 2015
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Author: Michael A. Ross
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. 320p.
Reviewer: Jonathan Lurie | November 2015
The Street Casino: Survival in Violent Street Gangs
Author: Simon Harding
Publisher: Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL: Policy Press, 2014. 327 p.
Reviewer: Jana Grekul | November 2015
September
Counterfeit Crime: Criminal Profits, Terror Dollars, and Nonsense
Author: R.T. Naylor
Publisher: Montreal, ONT: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. 308p.
Reviewer: Rajeev Gundur | September 2015
Drugs in Africa: Histories and Ethnographies of Use, Trade, and Control
Editors: Gernot Klantschnig, Neil Carrier, and Charles Ambler
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 220p.
Reviewer: Simon Howell | September 2015
Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Editors: Valsamis Mitsilegas, Peter Alldridge, and Leonidis Cheliotis
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2015. 243p.
Reviewer: Andrew Novak | September 2015
Go Set a Watchman
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 2015. 288 p.
Reviewer: Abbe Smith | September 2015
Green Harms and Crimes: Critical Criminology in a Changing World
Editor: Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 302p.
Reviewer: Tanya Wyatt | September 2015
International Law and Child Soldiers
Author: Gus Waschefort
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2015. 264p.
Reviewer: Maria Pichou | September 2015
Modern Bribery Law: Comparative Perspectives
Editors: Jeremy Horder and Peter Alldridge
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 381p.
Reviewer: Bruce Winfield Bean | September 2015
Moral Communities and Jailhouse Religion: Religiosity and Prison Misconduct
Author: Benjamin Meade
Publisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014. 244p.
Reviewer: Scott A. Desmond | September 2015
Murder in the Courtroom: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Violence
Author: Brigitte Vallabhajosula
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. 352p.
Reviewer: Robert D. Mather | September 2015
Organizational Change through Individual Empowerment: Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing
Author: Hans Toch
Publisher: Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2014. 186p.
Reviewer: Russ Immarigeon | September 2015
Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law: Individual Modes of Responsibility for Collective Crimes
Author: Neha Jain
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2014. 250p.
Reviewer: Jens David Ohlin | September 2015
Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective
Editors: Stefan Eklöf Amirell and Leos Müller
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 232p.
Reviewer: Bruce A. Elleman | September 2015
Prisoners, Solitude, and Time
Author: Ian O’Donnell
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 352p.
Reviewer: Sharon Shalev | September 2015
Sisters in Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender Into Criminology
Editors: Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Jennifer L. Lux and Cheryl Lero Jonson
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 432p.
Reviewer: Rosemary Barberet | September 2015
Surveillance in Europe
Authors: David Wright and Reinhard Kreissl
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2015. 422p.
Reviewer: Kees Boersma | September 2015
The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects
Author: Andrew Novak
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 132p.
Reviewer: Kawu Bala | September 2015
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
Author: Murakawa, Naomi
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 280p.
Reviewer: Jim Finckenauer | September 2015
Victimisation in a Digitised Society: A Survey among Members of the Public Concerning e-Fraud, Hacking and Other High-Volume Crimes
Authors: M.M. L. Domaine, E.R. Leukfeldt, J.A. van Wilsem, J. Jansen and W. Ph. Stol
Publisher: The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2013. 164p.
Reviewer: Donald Rebovich | September 2015
July
May
At The Cross: Race, Religion, & Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Author: Melynda J. Price
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. 232p.
Reviewer: Whitley Kaufman | July 2015
Black Men, Invisibility and Crime towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance
Author: Martin Glynn
Publisher: Routledge Press, London, 2014. 200p.
Reviewer: James D. Unnever | July 2015
Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Author: Gillian O’Brien
Publisher: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 320p.
Reviewer: David J. Bodenhamer | July 2015
Citizen Convicts: Prisoners, Politics and the Vote
Author: Cormac Behan
Publisher: Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press, 2014. 214p.
Reviewer: Mary Sigler | July 2015
Decoding Albanian Organized Crime: Culture, Politics, and Globalization
Author: Jana Arsovska
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. 312p.
Reviewer: Dwight C. Smith, Jr. | July 2015
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Editors: Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, and Allison C. Carey
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 316p.
Reviewer: Beth A. Easterling | July 2015
Financial Crime and Gambling in a Virtual World: A New Frontier in Cybercrime
Authors: Clare Chambers-Jones and Henry Hillman
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2014. 208p.
Reviewer: Graham Brooks | July 2015
Immigration Outside the Law
Author: Hiroshi Motomura
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 360p.
Reviewer: Gabriel J. Chin | July 2015
Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York
Author: Cathy Lisa Schneider
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 312p.
Reviewer: P.A.J. Waddington | July 2015
Reintegrative Justice in Practice: The Informal Management of Crime in an Island Community
Authors: Helen Miles and Peter Raynor
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 244p.
Reviewer: Kerry Clamp | July 2015
The Death Penalty in Africa: The Path Towards Abolition
Author: Aimé Muyoboke Karimunda
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 252p.
Reviewer: Andrew Novak | July 2015
Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality
Author: Soo Ah Kwon
Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2013. 169p.
Reviewer: Michael B. Greene | July 2015
Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice
Editor: Vincent O. Nhemielle
Publisher: The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2012. 488p.
Reviewer: Kawu Bala | May 2015
Applied Police Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Ella Cockbain and Johannes Knutsson
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2014. 176p.
Reviewer: Michael S. Scott | May 2015
Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Brian Connolly
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 304p.
Reviewer: Gillian Harkins | May 2015
Emotions, Decision-Making and Mass Atrocities: Through the Lens of the Macro-Micro Integrated Theoretical Model
Author: Olaoluwa Olusanya
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 143p.
Reviewer: Jonathan Leader Maynard | May 2015
Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World
Editors: Jennifer M. Hazen and Dennis Rodgers
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 312p.
Reviewer: James C. Howell | May 2015
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty
Author: Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier.
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 448p.
Reviewer: James R. Acker | May 2015
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Author: Denise Brennan
Publisher: Durham, NC; Duke University Press Books, 2014. 304p.
Reviewer: Kimberly M. Pitts | May 2015
Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago
Author: Laurence Ralph
Publisher: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 256p.
Reviewer: Tim Delaney | May 2015
Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
Author: Ivan G. Goldman
Publisher: Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2013. 256p.
Reviewer: Michael Welch | May 2015
State Crime and Resistance
Editors: Elizabeth Stanley and Jude McCulloch
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 242p.
Reviewer: Victoria Ellen Collins | May 2015
Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Author: Laura T. Murphy
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 344p.
Reviewer: Anne Johnston | May 2015
Too Big To Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations
Author: Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 384 p.
Reviewer: Miriam H. Baer | May 2015
When the Innocent are Punished: The Children of Imprisoned Parents
Author: Peter Scharff Smith
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 312p.
Reviewer: Kristin Turney | May 2015
March
Inside Immigration Detention
Author: Mary Bosworth
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 304p.
Reviewer: Paul Mutsaers | March 2015
Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims
Authors: Paul Begg and John Bennett
Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. 312p.
Reviewer: Alexandra Warwick | March 2015
Meth Mania: A History of Methamphetamine
Author: Nicholas L. Parsons
Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. 242p.
Reviewer: Rashi K. Shukla | March 2015
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Author: Alice Goffman
Publisher: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 288p.
Reviewer: Mercer L. Sullivan | March 2015
Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons, 1066 to the Present
Author: David Wilson
Publisher: London: Reaktion Books, 2014. 240p.
Reviewer: Victor Bailey | March 2015
Police Corruption: Essential Readings
Editor: Leslie Holmes
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. 712p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | March 2015
Sex Crime, Offenders, and Society: A Critical Look at Sexual Offending and Policy
Author: Christina Mancini
Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | March 2015
Terror Detentions and the Rule of Law: US and UK Perspectives
Author: Robert H. Wagstaff
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Reviewer: Alec D. Walen | March 2015
The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses
Authors: James T. O’Reilly and Margaret S. P. Chalmers
Publisher: New York; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 472p.
Reviewer: Carolyn M. Warner | March 2015
The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
Author: Andrea Leverentz
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 256p.
Reviewer: Keesha M. Middlemass | March 2015
Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
Author: Traci Burch
Publisher: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. 272p.
Reviewer: Samuel Bieler | March 2015
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: A Global Enquiry
Author: Rosemary L. Barberet
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2014. 232p.
Reviewer: Judith A. Ryder | March 2015
January
Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Authors: Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk
Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014. 232p.
Reviewer: Dana DeHart | January 2015
Capital Punishment: New Perspectives
Editor: Peter Hodgkinson
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. 408p.
Reviewer: Andrew Novak | January 2015
Combating Corruption: Legal Approaches to Supporting Good Governance and Integrity in Africa
Author: John Hatchard
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2014. 416p.
Reviewer: Michael Johnston | January 2015
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Boxes to Citizens United
Author: Zephyr Teachout
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 384p.
Reviewer: Peter J. Henning | January 2015
Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour And Crime: Contemporary Issues
Editors: Matt Hopkins and James Treadwell
Publisher: London; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 328p.
Reviewer: Ellis Cashmore | January 2015
Kafka’s Law: The Trial and American Criminal Justice
Author: Robert P. Burns
Publisher: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 192p.
Reviewer: Albert W. Dzur | January 2015
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations
Author: Tuba Inal
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 280p.
Reviewer: Nicola Henry | January 2015
Policing Diversity: Determinants of White, Black, and Hispanic Attitudes toward Police
Author: Yung-Lien LaiPublisher: El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2013. 174p.Reviewer: Ronald Burns | January 2015
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders
Author: Renee C. Romano
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 280p.
Reviewer: Angela Mae Kupenda | January 2015
Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect
Editors: Glenn W. Muschert, Stuart Henry, Nicole L. Bracy, and Anthony A. Peguero
Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2014. 294p.
Reviewer: Jonathan M. Kremser | January 2015
Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
Author: Ian Ward
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2014. 154p.
Reviewers: Kim Stevenson and Judith Rowbotham | January 2015
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships
Author: Heidi Hoefinger
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2013. 218p.
Reviewer: Susan Dewey | January 2015
Showing Remorse: Law and the Social Control of Emotion
Author: Richard WeismanPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 149p.Reviewer: Richard A. Bierschbach | January 2015
Surviving Incarceration: Inside Canadian Prisons
Author: Rose Ricciardelli
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2014. 250p.
Reviewer: Melissa Munn | January 2015
Terrorism and International Criminal Law
Editors: S. Fiorentini & W. Van Der Wolf
Publisher: The Hague: International Courts Association Press, 2013. 294p.
Reviewer: Stéphane Lefebvre | January 2015
The Death Penalty in Africa: The Path Towards Abolition
Author: Aimé Muyoboke Karimunda
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 221p.
Reviewer: Andrew Novak | January 2015
The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
Author: Randol Contreras
Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. 296p.
Reviewer: Mercer L. Sullivan | January 2015
The Unlawful Society: Global Crime and Security in a Complex World
Author: Paul Battersby
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 290p.
Reviewer: David O. Friedrichs | January 2015
