Books Received
November 2021
Listed below are books received for review over the last two months. Entries include publishing information as well as a description of the book. Unless otherwise stated, the book description is taken from the publisher’s website or the book jacket. Selected titles from this list will be chosen for a full review in forthcoming issues of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. Previous books received are available from the links below.
| The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP |
| Cyberflashing: Recognising Harms, Reforming Laws |
| Forever Prisons: How The United States Made the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System |
| Last Call: The True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York |
| White-Collar and Financial Crimes: A Casebook of Fraudsters, Scam Artists, and Corporate Thieves |
| Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court |
| We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption |
| On Crime, Society, and Responsibility in the Work of Nicola Lacey |
| In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and my Search for the Truth |
| Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty |
| Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly |
| The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 |
| An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America |
| ‘Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets’ |
| Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration |
| (Second Volume) The Eagle is Watching: FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980. |
| FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980. |
| The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal system, 1829-1913 |
| Hacker States |
| Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America |
| Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty in the American West |
| An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade |
| A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What That Means for Justice |
| Religious Hatred: Prejudice, Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Global Context |
| Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System |
| Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service |
| Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York Publisher’s Synopsis |
| Central Prison: A History of North Carolina’s State Penitentiary |
| “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration |
| America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s |
| Aging Behind Prison Walls: Studies in Trauma and Resilience |
