Reviews in Brief
2018
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
October
Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics And The Origins Of America’s Global Drug War
Author: Matthew R. Pembleton
Publisher: Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. 336p.
Reviewer: Aileen Teague | October 2018
Crime, Media And Reality: Examining Mixed Messages About Crime And Justice In Popular Media
Authors: Venessa Garcia and Samantha G. Arkerson
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. 173p.
Reviewer: Heather Anderson | October 2018
The Evolution Of The Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, And The Criminalizing Of Juvenile Justice
Author: Barry C. Feld
Publisher: New York, NY: New York University Press. 2017. 392p.
Reviewer: Chyna N. Crawford | October 2018
Presumption Of Innocence In Peril: A Comparative Critical Perspective
Author Name: Anthony Gray
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. 208p.
Reviewer: Alyssa M. Clark | October 2018
July
Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes The Psychology And Politics Of Wrongful Convictions
Author; Mark Godsey
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. 254p.
Reviewer: Rick Sarre | July 2018
The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma: Community Activism, Safety, And Social Justice
Author: Monica Williams
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2018. 287p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | July 2018
Challenging Perspectives On Street-Based Sex Work
Editors: Katie Hail-Jares, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Chrysanthi S. Leon
Publisher: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. 308p.
Reviewer: Emily van der Meulen | July 2018
Capital And Convict: Race, Region, And Punishment In Post-Civil War America
Author: Henry Kamerling
Publisher: Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 328p.
Reviewer: Vivien Miller | July 2018
Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, And The Real American Exceptionalism
Author: Marc Morjé Howard
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 296p.
Reviewer: Robert Heynen
Crime Script Analysis: Preventing Crimes Against Business
Author: Harald Haelterman
Publisher: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 276p.
Reviewer: Ben Stickle | July 2018
May
Murder On Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching Of Willie Peterson And The Struggle For Justice In Jim Crow Birmingham
Author: Melanie S. Morrison
Publisher: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 288p.
Reviewer: Brent M. S. Campney | May 2018
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations And The Law In The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Author: Julian Lim
Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 320p.
Reviewer: Matthew Ward | May 2018
Confidential Informants: A Closer Look At Policy
Author: Jon Shane
Publisher: Cham, SWIT: Springer, 2016. 112p.
Reviewer: Lloyd Klein | May 2018
Sports Criminology: A Critical Criminology Of Sport And Games
Author: Groombridge, Nic
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017.
Reviewer: Justin Kurland | May 2018
Bernie Madoff And The Crisis: The Public Trial Of Capitalism
Author: Colleen P. Eren
Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2017. 210 p.
Reviewer: David Schultz | May 2018
March
Indigenous Criminology
Authors: Chris Cunneen and Juan Tauri
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Policy Press; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 206p.
Reviewer: Jeremy Patzer | March 2018
Crimes Of Peace: Mediterranean Migration At The World’s Deadliest
Author: Maurizio Albahari
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 288p.
Reviewer: Ines Hasselberg | March 2018
The Lived Sentence: Rethinking Sentencing, Risk And Rehabilitation
Author: Maggie Hall
Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016. 294p.
Reviewer: Rick Sarre | March 2018
Dangerous Spaces: Beyond The Racial Profile
Author: D. Marvin Jones
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. 244p.
Reviewer: John Liederbach | March 2018
Global Lynching And Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, And The Middle East
Author: Michael J. Pfeifer, editor.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 228p.
Reviewer: Brandon T. Jett | March 2018
The Rise Of Extreme Porn: Legal And Criminological Perspectives On Extreme Pornography In England And Wales
Authors: Alexandros K Antoniou and Dimitris Akrivos
Publisher: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 369p.
Reviewer: Clare McGlynn | March 2018
Breaking The Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
Authors: Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. 240p.
Reviewer: Ashley Appleby | March 2018
January
Seeing Life Through Private Eyes: Secrets From America’s Top Investigator To Living Safer, Smarter, And Saner
Author: Thomas G. Martin
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. 180p.
Reviewers: Megan Travers and Brandon Dulisse | January 2018
In Search Of Safety: Confronting Inequality In Women’s Imprisonment
Authors: Barbara Owen, James Wells and Jocelyn Pollock
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. 280p.
Reviewer: Allison Monterrosa | January 2018
The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives Of Gay Gang Members
Author: Vanessa R. Panfil
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2017. 288p.
Reviewer: James C. Howell | January 2018
Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity And More-Than-Human Agency
Author: John Cianchi
Publisher: Baskingston, Oxon, UK: Palgrave, 2015, 163 p.
Reviewed by Michelle L. Lute | January 2018
Responding To Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, And Resistance Among Indigenous And Racialized Women
Author: Julie Kaye
Publisher: Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 180p.
Reviewer: Emily van der Meulen | January 2018
Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement On The Front Lines
Authors: Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, and Scott H. Decker
Publisher: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. 206p.
Reviewer: Rosalyn Bocker Parks | January 2018
