Abstract
Two handbooks head this issue’s list of new review titles: The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory edited by Eugene McLaughlin and Tim Newburn and The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology edited by Walter S DeKesedery and Molly Dragiewicz.
There are three new books on prisons: Penal Exceptionalism? Nordic Prison Policy and Practice edited by Thomas Ugelvik and Jane Dullum (Routledge) provides a very interesting comparative analysis of a Scandinavian penal system often presented as an alternate model to that prevailing in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand; A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America by Ernest Drucker (New Press) applies basic public health concepts to analyse imprisonment trends in the United States; while different trends in punishment are also highlighted in Resisting Punitiveness in Europe?: Welfare, Human Rights and Democracy edited by Sonja Snacken and Els Dumortier (Routledge).
Comparative research is also a hallmark of The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society edited by Suzanne Fraser and David Moore (Cambridge University Press), which brings together research from the Australia, the United States, Britain and Canada.
Recent arrivals from Routledge include: Handbook on Sexual Violence edited by Jennifer Brown and Sandra Walklate; Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders by Karen Harrison; and Offending Girls: Young Women and Youth Justice by Gilly Sharpe.
Two very different titles have been published by Ashgate: Exploring Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control edited by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng; and The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law’s Authority by Dennis J Baker.
Finally, a new journal, State Crime, will commence publication in 2012. For details, see: http://statecrime.org/journal
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