Reviews in Brief
2017
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
October
Crime, The Mystery Of The Common-Sense Concept
Author: Robert Reiner
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016. 246p.
Reviewers: Brandon Dulisse and Megan Travers | October 2017
Police Use Of Force: Important Issues Facing The Police And The Communities They Serve
Editor: Michael J. Palmiotto
Publisher: New York, NY: CRC Press, 2017. 196p.
Reviewer: Sheryl L. Van Horne | October 2017
Criminal Genius: A Portrait Of High-Iq Offenders
Author: James C. Oleson
Publisher: Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. 300p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | October 2017
Coercion And Women Co-Offenders: A Gendered Pathway Into Crime
Author: Charlotte Barlow
Publisher: Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL: Policy Press, “Shorts” Research series, 2016. 106p.
Reviewer: Richard Allinson | October 2017
Migrant Deaths In The Arizona Desert: La Vida No Vale Nada
Editors: Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Celestino Fernández, Jessie K. Finch, and Araceli Masterson-Algar
Publisher: Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016. 302 p.
Reviewer: Nicolás Eilbaum | October 2017
July
Deserved Criminal Sentences: An Overview
Author: Andreas von Hirsch
Publisher: Oxford, UK; Portland, OR: Hart Publishing. 192p.
Reviewer: Julian V. Roberts | July 2017
Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency
Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 268p.
Reviewer: Steve Tombs | July 2017
Plural Policing: Theory and Practice
Author: Colin Rogers
Publisher: Bristol, UK; Chicago: University of Chicago Press: Policy Press, 2017. 184p.
Reviewer: Frank Leishman | July 2017
Multiple Injustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle In Latin America
Author: R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher: Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2016. 328p.
Reviewer: Kathleen M. McIntyre | July 2017
To Protect and to Serve: How To Fix America’s Police
Author: Norm Stamper
Publisher: New York: Nations Books, 2016. 294p.
Reviewer: Robert Costello | July 2017
Provisional Authority: Police, Order, And Security In India
Author: Beatrice Jauregui
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 240p.
Reviewer: John Tahiliani | July 2017
May
Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective
Editors: Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2016. 184p.
Reviewers: Eleonora Rossi and Marieke Liem | May 2017
Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography
Author: Amalia Ziv
Publisher: Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. 312p.
Reviewer: Amber L. Morczek | May 2017
The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice, and Reform
Editors: Bin Liang and Hong Lu
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 362p.
Reviewer: Stephen Noakes | May 2017
Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference
Author: Julie Ham
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 176p.
Reviewer: Teela Sanders | May 2017
March
Down, Out And Under Arrest: Policing And Everyday Life In Skid Row
Author: Forrest Stuart
Publisher: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 352p.
Reviewer: Laura Huey | March 2017
Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime And Social Control: Essays In Honor Of Professor Dick Hobbs
Editor: Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Publisher: New York: Springer, 2016. 360p.
Reviewer: Jay Albanese | March 2017
Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, And Realities
Authors: Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass
Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. 239p.
Reviewer: Eric Madfis | March 2017
Contraband: Smuggling And The Birth Of The American Century
Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
Publisher: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 402p.
Reviewer: Christopher P. Magra | March 2017
The Role Of Prison In Europe: Travelling In The Footsteps Of John Howard
Author: Tom Vander Beken
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 243p.
Reviewer: Pieter Spierenburg | March 2017
Islamist Terrorism In Europe: A History
Author: Peter Nesser
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 371p.
Reviewer: David Schultz | March 2017
Young Offenders: Crime, Prison And Struggles For Desistance
Authors: Mark Halsey and Simone Deegan
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 274p.
Reviewer: Briege Nugent | March 2017
Social Control Of Sex Offenders: A Cultural History
Author: D. Richard Laws
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 287p.
Reviewer: Richard Tewksbury | March 2017
January
CHALLENGING THE MAFIA MYSTIQUE: COSA NOSTRA FROM LEGITIMIZATION TO DENUNCIATION
Author: Rino Coluccello
Publisher: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 260p.
Reviewer: David A. Marvelli | January 2017
POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
Authors: Bryn Caless and Jane Owens
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Policy Press (distributed in the U.S. by the University of Chicago Press), 2016. 256p.
Reviewer: Jonathon A. Cooper | January 2017
HANDCUFFED: WHAT HOLDS POLICING BACK, AND THE KEYS TO REFORM
Author: Malcolm Sparrow
Publisher: Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016. 262p.
Reviewer: Cory Schnell | January 2017
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE LIMITS OF WESTERN INFLUENCE, 1850-2000
Editor: Heather Ellis
Publisher: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 280p.
Reviewer: William S. Bush | January 2017
THE 9/11 TERROR CASES: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES IN THE WAR AGAINST AL QAEDA
Author: Allan A. Ryan
Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 240p.
Reviewer: Rebecca Kunkel | January 2017
THE PROBLEM OF PLEASURE: LEISURE, TOURISM, AND CRIME
Editors: Carol Jones, Elaine Barclay and Rob Mawby
Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 247p.
Reviewer: Kim H. Williams | January 2017
PREVENTING CRIME: A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Author: Tore Bjørgo
Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 322p.
Reviewer: Nick Tilley | January 2017
MENTAL HEALTH, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: RESPONSES AND REFORMS
Editor: Jane Winstone
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 301p.
Reviewer: Kayla G. Jachimowski | January 2017
