Full Reviews
2012
Previous Editions
November
Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
Author: Sue Pryce
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. 173p.
Reviewer: Rashi K. Shukla | November 2012
Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention
Author: James B. Waldram
Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 261p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | November 2012
Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo
Author: Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 325p.
Reviewer: Ko-lin Chin | November 2012
International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured
Author: David R. Bewley-Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 344p.
Reviewer: Angelica Duran-Martinez | November 2012
The Mind of the Criminal: The Role of Developmental Social Cognition in Criminal Defense Law
Author: Reid Griffith Fontaine
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 264p.
Reviewer: Mark R. Fondacaro | November 2012
More Essential Than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Stephen J. Schulhofer
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 199 p.
Reviewer: Craig Hemmens | November 2012
Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats and Cyber Terrorism
Authors : Imran Awan and Brian Blakemore, eds.
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 201p.
Reviewer: Anita Lavorgna | November 2012
Prisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix
Author: Melvin Delgado
Publisher: Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. 241p.
Reviewer: Jesse Jannetta | November 2012
Shopping and Crime
Author: Joshua A. N. Bamfield
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 325p.
Reviewer: Robert L. DiLonardo | November 2012
September
ANATOMY OF INJUSTICE: A MURDER CASE GONE WRONG
Author: Raymond Bonner
New York: Knopf, 2012. 320p.
Reviewer: Abbe Smith | September 2012
CONFESSIONS OF GUILT: FROM TORTURE TO MIRANDA AND BEYOND
Authors: George C. Thomas III & Richard A. Leo
Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Reviewer: Andrew D. Leipold | September 2012
THE CRIME NUMBERS GAME: MANAGEMENT BY MANIPULATION
Authors: John A. Eterno and Eli B. Silverman
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012. 282p. (Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series.)
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | September 2012
THE CRIMINOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Author: Jock Young
Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011. 252p.
Reviewer: Candace McCoy | September 2012
THE ETHICS OF TOTAL CONFINEMENT: A CRITIQUE OF MADNESS, CITIZENSHIP, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Authors: Bruce A. Arrigo, Heather Y. Bersot, and Brian G. Sellers
Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 300p.
Reviewer: Bonita M. Veysey | September 2012
IN DOUBT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS
Author: Dan Simon
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 405p.
Reviewer: George C. Thomas III | September 2012
LIARS AND OUTLIERS: ENABLING THE TRUST THAT SOCIETY NEEDS TO THRIVE
Author: Bruce Schneier
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. 366p.
Reviewer: Paul Ekblom | September 2012
THE MACHINERY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Author: Stephanos Bibas
New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. 285 pp.
Reviewer: Ronald Wright | September 2012
POLICE REFORM IN CHINA
Author: Kam C. Wong
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. 388 pages
Reviewer: Min Liu | September 2012
PREVENTING CROWD VIOLENCE
Authors: Tamara D. Madensen and Johannes Knutsson, eds.
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2011. 243p.
Reviewer: Justin Kurland | September 2012
July
EMOTIONS, CRIME AND JUSTICE
Susanne Karstedt, Ian Loader and Heather Strang, editors
Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart, 2011. 380 p.
Reviewer: Susan A. Bandes | July 2012
FLAGRANT CONDUCT: THE STORY OF LAWRENCE V. TEXAS: HOW A BEDROOM ARREST DECRIMINALIZED GAY AMERICANS
Author: Dale Carpenter
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2012. 345 p.
Reviewer: Carlos A. Ball | July 2012
STATES OF DELINQUENCY: RACE AND SCIENCE IN THE MAKING OF CALIFORNIA’S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Author: Chavez-Garcia, Miroslava
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. 290p.
Reviewer: Barry Krisberg | July 2012
Youth Gangs in International Perspective: Results from the Eurogang Program of Research
Finn-Aage Esbensen and Cheryl Maxson, editors
New York: Springer, 2012. 319p.
Reviewer: James C. Howell | July 2012
May
DEFINING DEVIANCE: SEX, SCIENCE, AND DELINQUENT GIRLS, 1890-1960
Author: Michael A. Rembis
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2011. 237p.
Reviewer: Russ Immarigeon | May 2012
The Ends of Harm
Author: Victor Tadros
New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 384
Reviewer: Alec Walen | May 2012
LAW AS PUNISHMENT / LAW AS REGULATION
Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Merrill Umphrey, editors
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 185 p.
Reviewer: Ana Aliverti | May 2012
PRISON POLICY IN IRELAND: POLITICS, PENAL-WELFARISM AND POLITICAL IMPRISONMENT
Author: Mary Rogan
London, UK: Routledge, 2011
Reviewer: Taja-Nia Y. Henderson | May 2012
THE REGISTRATION AND MONITORING OF SEX OFFENDERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Author: Terry Thomas
New York: Routledge, 2011. 188p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | May 2012
WHY THE LAW IS SO PERVERSE
Author: Leo Katz
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 239p.
Reviewer: Kimberly Kessler Ferzan | May 2012
March
Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Author: William J. Stuntz
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 413p.
Reviewer: Samuel W. Buell | March 2012
Crime in the Art and Antiquities World: Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property
Author: Stefano Manacorda and Duncan Chappell (editors)
Publisher: New York: Springer, 2011. 453p.
Reviewer: Gisela Bichler | March 2012
The Justice of Mercy
Author: Linda Ross Meyer
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2010. 264p.
Reviewer: Carol S. Steiker | March 2012
Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice
Authors: Christopher Slobogin and Mark R. Fondacaro
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 224p.
Reviewer: Laura Cohen | March 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New York: The New Press, 2010. 290p.
Reviewer: Johnna Christian | March 2012
Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America
Author: William Garriott
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2011. 201p.
Reviewer: Rashi K. Shukla | March 2012
The Reasoning Criminologist: Essays in Honour of Ronald V. Clarke
Author: Nick Tilley and Graham Farrell (editors)
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 288p.
Reviewer: Jackson Toby | March 2012
Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice
Author: Ralph Henham
New York: Routledge, 2012. 368p.
Rreviewer: Wes Reber Porter | March 2012
January
The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 336p.
Reviewer: Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina Gimeno | January 2012
Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and A Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi
Author: Christopher Waldrep
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. 325p.
Reviewer: Craig Hemmens | January 2012
Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking: The Voice of Chinese Women
Author: Min Liu
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishing, 2011. 203p.
Reviewer: Andrea Lange | January 2012
