Reviews in Brief
2016
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
September
Walking Prey: How America’s Youth are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery
Author: Holly Austin Smith
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 256p.
Reviewer: Annie Isabel Fukushima | September, 2016
The Para-State: An Ethnography of Colombia’s Death Squads
Author: Aldo Civico
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. 264p.
Reviewer: Gabriela Manrique Rueda | September 2016
Law and Lies: Deception and Truth-Telling In the American Legal System
Editor: Austin Sarat
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 344p.
Reviewer: Kawu Bala | September 2016
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
Author: Alexandra Lutnick
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 200p.
Reviewer: Melanie Clark Mogavero | September 2016
American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures
Author: Jesse Kavadlo
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015. 218p.
Reviewer: Richard Lachmann | September 2016
May
The Mafia: A Cultural History
Author: Roberto M. Dainotto
Publisher: London: Reaktion Books, 2015. 239p.
Reviewer: Jay Albanese | May 2016
Understanding Sexual Homicide Offenders: An Integrated Approach
Author: Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 179p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | May 2016
The Exclusionary Rule of Evidence: Comparative Analysis and Proposals for Reform
Author: Kuo-hsing Hsieh
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge), 2014. 250 p.
Reviewer: Andrew Novak | May 2016
The CON Men: Hustling in New York City
Authors: Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press (Studies in Transgression series), 2015. 276p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | May 2016
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: New York: Doubleday (Anchor Books), 2015. 416p.
Reviewer: Allison Crowe | May 2016
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Author: Carl Hart
Publisher: New York: Harper Perennial, 2014. 352p.
Reviewer: Robert Costello | May 2016
Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
Editors: Avi Brisman and Nigel South
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate (Routledge), 2016. 344p.
Reviewer: Sara McFann | May 2016
March
Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence Against Women
Author: Nancy Lombard
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015. 228p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | March 2016
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold
Author: Nancy Moses
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 160p.
Reviewer: Marc Balcells | March 2016
The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice
Author: Nina M. Moore
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 379p.
Reviewer: David Schultz | March 2016
Killer Weed: Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice
Authors: Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 204p.
Reviewer: Rebecca Jesseman | March 2016
Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse
Author: Katherine Hirschfeld
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 176p.
Reviewer: Mark Galeotti | March 2016
Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions
Author: Wadie E. Said
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 207p.
Reviewer: David Schultz | March 2016
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Author: Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publisher: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 257p.
Reviewer: William S. Kiser | March 2016
January
Developing Restorative Justice Jurisprudence: Rethinking Responses to Criminal Wrongdoing
Author: Tony Foley
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 262p.
Reviewer: Steve Kirkwood | January 2016
Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis
Authors: David H. Cropley and Arthur J. Cropley
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 250p.
Reviewers: James C. Kaufman and Cuiping Tu | January 2016
Hooked in Film: Substance Abuse on the Big Screen
Author: John Markert
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 392p.
Reviewer: Bran Nicol | January 2016
Pop Culture Panics: How Moral Crusaders Construct Meanings of Deviance and Delinquency
Author: Karen Sternheimer
Publisher: London, UK; New York: Routledge, 2015. 164p.
Reviewer: Christopher J. Moloney | January 2016
Terrorism, Inc.: The Financing of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Irregular Warfare
Author: Colin P. Clarke
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2015. 289p.
Reviewer: Michael Freeman | January 2016
The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s
Author: Mariah Adin
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015. 167p.
Reviewer: Christopher J. Moloney | January 2016
