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2025

Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence

Author: Samantha J. Simon
Publisher: NYU Press, 2024. 304 pages.
Reviewer: Ryan Brown | Spring 2025

Counterfeited in China: The Operations of Illicit Businesses

Author: Ko-Lin Chin
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2025. 304 pages.
Reviewer: Dilara Bural | Spring 2025

Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance

Author: Anton Moiseienko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 295 pages.
Reviewer: Frederick T. Martens | Spring 2025

Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion

Author: Amy Adamczyk
Publisher: Oxford Academic Press, 2025. 328 pages.
Reviewer: Brittany Hayes | Spring 2025

Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison

Authors: Erik S. Maloney, and Kevin A. Wright
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 210 pages.
Reviewer: Justin McDevitt | Spring 2025

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration

Author: Rachel Elise Barkow
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2025. 320 pages.
Reviewer: Chad Flanders | Spring 2025

Punishment for the Greater Good

Author: Adam J. Kolber
Publisher: Oxford Academic Press, 2024. 264 pages.
Reviewer: Jordan Wallace-Wolf | Spring 2025

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing

Author: Christopher Slobogin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 332 pages.
Reviewer: Guha Krishnamurthi | Spring 2025

Voicing Consent: Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts

Editors: Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular, Barbara G. Brents, Susie Balderston, and Gillian Abel
Publisher: Springer Nature, 2025. 270 pages.
Reviewer: Michelle Annett | Spring 2025

The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence

Author: Shannon Malone Gonzalez
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025. 302 pages.
Reviewer: Brianne M. Posey | Spring 2025

Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy

Author: Louis Ferrante
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2025. 432 pages.
Reviewer: Fredrick T. Martens | Winter 2025

DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

Author: Max Felker-Kantor
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2024. 228 pages.
Reviewer: Andrew S. Baer | Winter 2025

Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change

Authors: Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., & Maria Hawilo
Publisher: FSG Originals (Macmillan Publishers), 2024. 496 pages.
Reviewer: Sheldon Evans | Winter 2025

Ending Mass Incarceration: Why it Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform

Author: Katherine Beckett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pages.
Reviewer: Gregory Brazeal | Winter 2025

Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration

Author: Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2024. 392 pages.
Reviewer: Mia Thomaidou | Winter 2025

How Juries Work and How They Could Work Better

Author: Rebecca K. Helm
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2024. 240 pages.
Reviewer: Annabelle Frazier | Winter 2025

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State

Author: Anthony Gregory
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2024. 512 pages.
Reviewer: Sheldon Evans | Winter 2025