Reviews in Brief
2020
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
November
Set The Night On Fire: L.A. In The Sixties
Authors: Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
Publisher: New York: Verso, 2020. 800p.
Reviewer: Andrew Baer | November 2020
Female Imprisonment: An Ethnography Of Everyday Life In Confinement
Author: Catarina Frois
Publisher: Cham, SWIT: Springer International – Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 231p.
Reviewer: G.S. Rekha | November 2020
Killing With Prejudice: Institutionalized Racism In American Capital Punishment
Author: R.J. Maratea
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2019. 233p.
Reviewer: Margaret Vandiver | November 2020
The Last Pirate Of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, And The Birth Of A Gangster Nation
Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher: New York: Spiegel & Grau, A Division of Penguin Random House, 2019. 256p.
Reviewer: Kevin Cassidy | November 2020
Le Boogie Woogie – Inside An After-Hours Club
Author: Terry Williams
Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 304p.
Reviewer: Kim Moeller | November 2020
The Woman On The Windowsill: A Tale Of Mystery In Several Parts
Author: Sylvia Sellers-García
Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 281p.
Reviewer: Victor M. Uribe-Uran | November 2020
September
New Perspectives On Prison Masculinities
Editors: Matthew Maycock and Kate Hunt
Publisher: Cham, SWIT: Palgrave, 2018. 343p.
Reviewers: Rosemary Ricciardelli and Navjotpal Kaur | September 2020
The Discourse Of Police Interviews
Editors: Marianne Mason and Frances Rock
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 336p.
Reviewer: Kevin Cassidy | September 2020
The Hacker And The State: Cyber Attacks And The New Normal Of Geopolitics
Author: Ben Buchanan
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 432p.
Reviewer: Kevin Cassidy | September 2020
Killing Times: The Temporal Technology Of The Death Penalty
Author: David Wills
Publisher: New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 252p.
Reviewer: Mary Welek Atwell | September 2020
The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, A Cold-Case Sleuth, And A Search For Justice
Author: Vanessa Brown
Publisher: Toronto: ECW Press, 2019. 360p.
Reviewer: Mike Farris | September 2020
July
No Place On The Corner: The Costs Of Aggressive Policing
Author: Haldipur, Jan
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2019. 199p.
Reviewer: David Schultz │ July 2020
Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact And Justice In The Modern Era
Editors: Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 357p.
Reviewer: Frank Crispino │ July 2020
The Rise and Fall Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970
Author: Victor Bailey
Publisher: London: Routledge, 2019. 550p.
Reviewer: David Wilson │ July 2020
Punishment and Citizenship: A Theory Of Criminal Disenfranchisement
Author: Milena Tripkovic
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 180p.
Reviewer: David Schultz │ July 2020
China’s Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, And Criminal Justice
Author: Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 179p.
Reviewer: Tiantian Zheng │ July 2020
Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and Challenges Of Globalization
Author: Blattner, Charlotte E.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 520p.
Reviewer: Margo De Mello │ July 2020
Drug Warrior: Inside The Hunt For El Chapo and The Rise Of America’s Opioid Crisis
Publisher: New York: Hachette Books, 2019. 272p.
Reviewer: Frederick T. Martens | July 2020
Competing For Control: Gangs and The Social Order Of Prisons
Authors: David C. Pyrooz and Scott H. Decker
Publisher: New York:Cambridge University Press, 2019. 312p.
Reviewer: Kerryn E. Bell | July 2020
March
Conviviality And Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order
Author: Sacha Darke
Publisher: Cham, SWIT: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 358p.
Reviewer: Bárbara Barraza Uribe | March 2020
Climate Change Criminology
Author: Rob White
Publisher: Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2018. 192p.
Reviewers: Tariro Mutongwizo and Cameron Holley | March 2020
Banned: Immigration Enforcement In The Time Of Trump
Author: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 2019. 216p.
Reviewer: Kevin Cassidy | March 2020
