Full Reviews
2013
Previous Editions
November
Bioethics, Medicine, and the Criminal Law. Volume 1, The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope
Editors: Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett, and Suzanne Ost
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 290p.
Reviewer: David Orentlicher | November 2013
Choosing for Juries: Application and Development of Juries in Old and New Jury Trial Countries
Author: Nazim Ziyado
Publisher: Antwerp, BE: Maklu, 2013. 270p.
Reviewer: Randolph N. Jonakait | November 2013
Constitutional Limitations of Interviewing and Interrogations in American Policing
Authors: Ross Wolf, Charles Mesloh, and Robert H. Wood.
Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 141p.
Reviewer: Craig Hemmens | November 2013
Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Editors: Sofia Bahena, North Cooc, Rachel Currie-Rubin, Paul Kuttner, and Monica Ng
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 288p.
Reviewer: Eliza P. Fabillar | November 2013
Homicide and the Politics of Law Reform
Author: Jeremy Horder
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. 330p.
Reviewer: Guyora Binder | November 2013
How Can You Represent Those People?
Editors: Abbe Smith and Monroe H. Freedman
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 244p.
Reviewer: Marc Bookman | November 2013
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: The Shame of the States
Author: Michael L. Perlin
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013. 200p.
Reviewer: Meghan J. Ryan | November 2013
Piracy And International Maritime Crimes In Asean: Prospects for Cooperation
Editors: Robert C. Beckman , J. Ashley Roach
Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2012. 272p.
Reviewer: Leonid Lantsman | November 2013
Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy
Author: Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 239p.
Reviewer: Simon Reich | November 2013
Risk Markers for Sexual Victimization and Predation in Prison
Authors: Janet I, Warren and Shelly L. Jackson
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2013. 356p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | November 2013
Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Editors: Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love
Publisher: Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2013. 349p.
Reviewer: Annette Jolin | November 2013
Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking
Authors: Ko-Lin Chin and James Finckenauer
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 336p.
Reviewer: Amy Farrell | November 2013
The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973
Author: Kathleen Frydl
Publisher: Cambridge, UK; New York; Cambridge University Press, 2013. 447p.
Reviewer: Paul Gootenberg | November 2013
Tried and Convicted: How Police, Prosecutors, and Judges Destroy Our Constitutional Rights
Author: Michael D. Cicchini
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 176p.
Reviewer: Jack E. Call | November 2013
September
Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada
Author: R. Blake Brown
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 376 p.
Reviewer: Gary Mauser | September 2013
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City
Author: Christine B.N. Chin
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 234 p.
Reviewer: Sharon S. Oselin | September 2013
Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership
Author: Robert Lambert
Publisher: London: C. Hurst & Company, 2011. 402p.
Reviewer: Basia Spalek | September 2013
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South
Author: Nir Kshetri
Publisher: Basingstoke; UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 256 p.
Reviewer: Peter Grabosky | September 2013
Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation
Author: Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall
Publisher: Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2013. 200 p.
Reviewer: Maurice Vanstone | September 2013
Evil Men
Author: James Dawes
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 280p.
Reviewer: Mark A. Drumbl | September 2013
Explaining Criminal Careers: Implications for Justice Policy
Author: John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, and David P. Farrington
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 256 p.
Reviewer: Matt DeLisi | September 2013
Just Authority? Trust in the Police in England and Wales
Authors: Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Betsy Stanko, and Katrin Hohl
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 244p.
Reviewers: Elise Sargeant and Lorraine Mazerolle | September 2013
Just Sentencing: Principles and Procedures for a Workable System
Author: Richard S. Frase
Publishing: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 304p.
Reviewer: Richard L. Lippke | September 2013
Policing for Peace in Northern Ireland: Change, Conflict, and Community Confidence
Author: Joanne Murphy
Publisher: London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 240 p.
Reviewer: R. Allen Hays | September 2013
Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law
Editors: Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner, and Patrick Tomlin
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 308p.
Reviewer: Alec Walen | September 2013
Prison Violence: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Author: Kristine Levan
Publisher: Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012. 155 p.
Reviewer: Rebecca Trammell | September 2013
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion and Victim Blaming is Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis
Author: Jody Raphael
Publisher: Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2013. 256 p.
Reviewer: Janine Benedet | September 2013
Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Author: Corrigan, Rose
Publisher: New York; London: New York University Press, 2013. 320 p.
Reviewer: Patricia Yancey Martin | September 2013
Virtual Economies and Financial Crime: Money Laundering in Cyberspace
Author: Clare Chambers-Jones
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. 256p.
Reviewer: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo | September 2013
July
13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age
Author: Stuart P. Green
Publisher: Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 400p.
Reviewer: Emmanuel Melissaris | July 2013
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
Author: Adrian Raine
Publishing: New York: Pantheon Books, 2013. 478p.
Reviewer: Jim Finckenauer | July 2013
Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
Author: Karen Houppert
Publisher: New York: New Press, 2013. 288p.
Reviewer: Abbe Smith | July 2013
Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War
Editor: Robert J. Bunker
Publisher: New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2013. 210p.
Reviewer: Ami C. Carpenter | July 2013
The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails: Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings
Author: Richard E. Wener
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 314p.
Reviewer: Russ Immarigeon | July 2013
Felony Murder
Author: Guyora Binder
Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books/ Stanford University Press, 2012. 351p.
Reviewer: Kimberly Kessler Ferzan | July 2013
From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy and Prevention
Editors: Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 416p.
Reviewer: Christopher J. Sullivan | July 2013
Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice
Edited by: Adam Crawford and Anthea Hucklesby
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2013. 221p.
Reviewer: Stéphane Lefebvre | July 2013
Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security: Organized Crime and State Response
Editors: George Philip and Susana Berruecos
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 224p.
Reviewer: Leonid Lantsman | July 2013
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Author: Piper Kerman
Publisher: New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. 320p.
Reviewer: Bonita M. Veysey | July 2013
The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
Author: Geoff K. Ward
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 344p.
Reviewer: Barry Krisberg | July 2013
They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption
Author: Michael F. Armstrong
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 272p.
Reviewer: George L. Kelling | July 2013
May
Animal Harm: Perspectives On Why People Harm And Kill Animals
Author: Angus Nurse
Publisher: Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 289p
Reviewer: Gary L. Francione | May 2013
Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime And Governance In The Divided City
Author: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 272p.
Reviewer: Gail Super | May 2013
Corrections: A Critical Approach. 3rd Ed.
Author: Michael Welch
Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2011. 768p.
Reviewer: Edward W. Sieh | May 2013
Crime, History, And Hollywood: Learning Criminal Justice History Through Major Motion Pictures
Authors: Willard M.Oliver and Nancy E. Marion
Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 240p.
Reviewer: W. Carsten Andresen | May 2013
Crime-Terror Alliances And The State: Ethnonationalist And Islamist Challenges To Regional Security
Authors: Lyubov Grigorova Mincheva and Ted Robert Gurr
Publisher: Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2013. 234 p.
Reviewer: Peter Grabosky | May 2013
Criminology Goes To The Movies: Crime Theory And Popular Culture
Authors: Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2011. 236p.
Reviewer: Judith A. Ryder | May 2013
Cyberthreats And International Law
Author: Georg Kerschischnig
Publisher: The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2012. 386p.
Reviewer: Anita Lavorgna | May 2013
The Harm In Hate Speech
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 304p.
Reviewer: Mohamad Al-Hakim | May 2013
Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime In The Uk
Author: Dick Hobbs
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 344p.
Reviewer: Daniel Silverstone | May 2013
Offender Rehabilitation And Therapeutic Communities: Enabling Change The Tc Way
Author: Alisa Stevens
Publisher: Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2013. 240p.
Reviewer: Anne Worrall | May 2013
Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy Of Criminal Law
Editors: John Deigh and David Dolinko
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 544p.
Reviewer: Susan Dimock | May 2013
Sex Work: Labour, Mobility, And Sexual Services
Authors: JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering, and Alison Gerard
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 166p.
Reviewer: Samantha Majic | May 2013
Shooting To Kill: Socio-Legal Perspectives On The Use Of Lethal Force
Editors: Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani, and Saskia Hufnagel
Publisher: Oxford; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2012. 342p.
Reviewer: Jeremy Horder | May 2013
The Sparking Discipline Of Criminology: John Braithwaite And The Construction Of Critical Social Science And Social Justice
Editors: Stephan Parmentier, Lode Walgrave, Ivo Aertsen, Jeroen Maesschalck and Letizia Paoli.
Publisher: Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2011. 164p
Reviewer: David Biles | May 2013
March
Children and Cross-Examination: Time to Change the Rules?
Editors: John R. Spencer and Michael E. Lamb
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2012. 314p.
Reviewers: Amelia Hritz and Stephen Ceci | March 2013
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Author: Timothy Pachirat
Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. 320p.
Reviewer: Jarret S. Lovell | March 2013
Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Authors: Robert J. Kane and Michael D. White
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2013. 220p.
Reviewer: Robert Costello | March 2013
Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure
Author: Jody Lynee Madeira
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 336p.
Reviewer: Talia Roitberg Harmon | March 2013
Policing in Hong Kong
Author: Kam C. Wong
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 357p.
Reviewer: Mathieu Deflem | March 2013
Sex Slaves and Serfs: The Dynamics of Human Trafficking in a Small Florida Town
Author: Erin C. Heil
Publisher: Boulder, CO: First Forum Press, 2012. 169p.
Reviewer: Kathleen Powell | March 2013
The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem
Authors: David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang
Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 288p.
Reviewer: Anthony A. Braga | March 2013
The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction
Authors: Anthony Walsh and Jonathan D. Bolen
Publisher: Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 216p.
Reviewer: Matt DeLisi | March 2013
The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist
Author: John A. Jenkins
Publisher: New York: PublicAffairs, 2012. 330p.
Reviewer: Jordan Rubin | March 2013
January
Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys: Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood
Author: Lisa Williams
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 208p.
Reviewer: Adrian Barton | January 2013
Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence
Authors: Erika Gebo and Brenda J. Bond, eds.
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 191p.
Reviewer: James C. Howell | January 2013
Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent?
Authors: Daniel Givelber and Amy Farrell
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2012. 209p.
Reviewer: Darryl K. Brown | January 2013
Prostitution, Harm, and Gender Inequality: Theory, Research and Policy
Author: Maddy Coy, ed.
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 207p.
Reviewer: Annette Jolin | January 2013
