Crime and criminology Books

Book SynopsisAre the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? This book offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime.Trade ReviewGet a Joboffers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *[] Get a Job offers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *Get a Job takes a giant step to unravel the modern paradox of declining crime in the midst of deepening fissures in contemporary labor markets. Crutchfield weaves evidence from across the social sciences and the lived experiences of increasingly marginalized workers to advance a theory of persistent crime, stratified labor, and deepening economic inequality in the modern world of transient and futureless jobs. More than a strong read, it sets an agenda for the next generation of research on crime and work in the new Western economies. -- Jeff Fagan,co-editor, The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal CourtCrutchfields much anticipated Get a Job delivers! In it, he draws from his decades of storied research, together with personal insights, to tease out the complex relationship of the economy and work to crime. This sophisticated yet highly engaging work distills key insights, making sense of seemingly paradoxical historical trends and cross-national comparisons, while carefully embedding the analysis in the intersections of race, class, and gender. Get a Job is an excellent, important, and timely resource. -- Jody Miller,author, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered ViolenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Modern Miserables: Labor Market Influences on Crime 2 "Get a Job": The Connection between Work and Crime 3 Why Do They Do It? The Potential for Criminality 4 "I Don't Want No Damn Slave Job!": The Effects of Lack of Employment Opportunities 5 "Life in the Hood": How Social Context Matters 6 Lessons from the Hole in the Wall Gang 7 Toward a More General Explanation of Employment and Crime 8 A Tale of My Two Cities Appendix: Data Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCautions that the legacy of the grand experiment of the past forty years will be difficult to escape.Trade Review"Criminologists Clear (Imprisoning Communities) and Frost (The Punitive State) offer an accessible study of mass incarceration in the U.S. that is theoretically sophisticated and rich in statistical data . . . . A meticulously organized concluding chapter lays out their proposals with an eye toward reducing sentences and making them more humane for nonviolent offenders. The book merits serious consideration beyond an academic audience." * Publishers Weekly *"This short, efficiently conveyed study cannot delve into all of the ramifications of how to integrate those returning to society, however,The Punishment Imperativeattests to the need for a better way to manage the millions that our nation have, for too long, relegated to simply lock up, forever." * Popmatters *"Backed up by the best science, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost make a compelling case for why the nations forty-year embrace of the punitive spirit has been morally bankrupt and endangered public safety. But this is far more than an exposé of correctional failure. Recognizing that a policy turning point is at hand, Clear and Frost provide a practical blueprint for choosing a different correctional futurecounsel that is wise and should be widely followed." -- Francis Cullen,Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati"For forty years, the heavy hammer of criminal punishment has been the nation's primary tool for addressing social problems. And when the hammer has failed to fix these problems or does further damage, we've responded by grabbing an even bigger hammer. In The Punishment Imperative, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost convincingly demonstrate that the hammer has, finally, become too heavy for us to raise. They offer a masterful dissection of this 'grand social experiment'; showing how we embarked on this strategy, its costs to individuals and communities, and a clear-headed path to real reform. The Punishment Imperative is neither armchair critique nor utopian vision, but rather an eye-opening and truly authoritative treatment by two true experts on punishment's past, present, and future." -- Christopher Uggen,co-author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy"It is too soon to tell if a sea of change is upon the US penal system, but the authors make their cogent argument in this well-written book. Summing Up:Highly recommended." -- P. Horne * Choice *"Part historical study, part forward-looking policy analysis, The Punishment Imperativeis a compelling study of a generation of crime and punishment in America." -- Douglas A. Berman * Sentencing Law and Policy *"This well-documented volume will interest anyone connected to our criminal justice system and may appeal to general readers concerned about the subject of incarceration." -- Frances O. Sandiford * Library Journal *"This compelling narrative helps us better understand the history, trajectory, and complexity of the politics of punishment in the United States over the past four decades. At a time of impending shifts in the correctional landscape in this country, this impressive volume should be on the reading list not only for scholars and students of mass incarceration, but also for corrections practitioners and policymakers everywhere who care about a new vision for America's penal system." -- Laurie O. Robinson,Former Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice"The book's 200 pages of details and its prescriptions will be intriguing even to those who know the field." * Jotwell *"Clear and Frost have helped start the most important conversation facing criminologists at the moment. How do we substantively reduce prison populations?" * Crime Law Social Change *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Beginning of the End of the Punishment Imperative 2. The Contours of Mass Incarceration 3. The Punishment Imperative as a Grand Social Experiment 4. The Policies of the Punishment Imperative 5. Two Views on the Objectives of the Punishment Imperative 6. Assessing the Punishment Imperative 7. Dismantling the Punishment Imperative Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisOver the years, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. This book critiques the system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future.Trade ReviewIn a masterful and wonderfully readable blend of science, cases, legal analysis and clinical insight, DiCataldo shows us that the problem is not 'them,' but rather our own unsupportable images and presumptions about who 'they' are. If policy makers, clinicians and researchers read this book with an open mind, it could bring long-overdue change to our nation’s responses to youth whose sexual behavior sometimes troubles us. -- Thomas Grisso,Director, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolProvides a well-informed and comprehensive assessment of today’s psychological and legal environments that surround youth who have committed sexual offenses. This book will be a valuable resource to clinicians, researchers, attorneys, judges, and policymakers who deal with this complex topic. -- Brent J. Oneal,Private Forensic Practice/Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, SeattleDiCataldo's texts is a very welcomed addition to the study of adolescent sexuality as it reminds us of the need to consider the remarkable breadth of adolescents' experiences and evaluated the appropriateness of societal responses to them. -- Danielle Schwegman * Journal of Youth & Adolescence *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Birth of a Moral Panic 2 The Return of the Blob: The Heterogeneity of Juvenile Sex Offenders 3 Test Authors in Search of a Clinical Population: Risk Assessment Instruments for Juvenile Sex Offenders 4 The Adolescent as Sexual Deviant: The Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 5 Creating the Objects of Our Concern: Normal Childhood Sexuality and the Invention of Childhood Sexual Behavior Problems 6 Becoming a Man: The Waiver of the Juvenile Sex Offender to Adult Court 7 Making Monsters: The Civil Commitment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 8 Collateral Consequences: The Invisible Punishment of the Juvenile Sex Offender Epilogue References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisArgues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worthTrade ReviewEven though this book is just being published, I have been telling people to find Lisa Marie Cachos work and read it for years. She has a rare ability to illuminate the collisions and erasures of identity, and she powerfully explains how their devastating consequences are the grounds for social order. This is a game-changing book, written in beautiful and lucid prose. -- Rachel Buff,University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeCacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousness[A]profound way to think about freedom. * Women' Studies Quarterly *Apowerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others, Social Death will be one of those books that we come back to over and over again. -- Roderick A. Ferguson,author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority DifferenceAn innovated, dense, and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, law students, scholars, and any layperson interested in race, law, philosophy, and politics. * CHOICE *Proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization, groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for personhood.' * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Violence of Value 1. White Entitlement and Other People's Crimes 2. Beyond Ethical Obligation 3. Grafting Terror onto Illegality 4. Immigrant Rights versus Civil Rights Conclusion: Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisArgues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind barsTrade ReviewIt is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary prison sociology radicalization, terrorism, and the fractured world we live in, as well as the changing landscape of prisons internationally. Hamm dedicates his book to John Irwin, an indication of his sociological spirit, and his deep immersion in the kinds of questions outstanding penologists ask. The kinds of questions Hamm is addressing require precisely that sociological spirit. * Crime, Law, and Social Change *This is a shrewd, moving and terrifying book. It describes the intensifying role of ideology (and the urge to civil action) in western prisons, showing powerfully how this development brings with it both & unprecedented security challenges and & exceptional possibilities for progressive reform. Hamms meticulous research, on trends in prisoner radicalization in American correctional institutions, shows that America is creating its own terrorists, in its failing prisons. -- Alison Liebling,co-author of The Prison OfficerMark Hamm is, without doubt, the worlds leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization. -- Peter Neumann,author of Old and New TerrorismThe Spectacular Few is a refreshing and important work, taking the apparently too-uncommon steps of talking to radical prisoners and performing statistical analyses on samples of radicals to test theories and measure practices. * Anthropology Review Database *Hamm's argument is intelligent, compassionate, and well argued....Hamm presents and argues his case well, and this book deserves a wide audience. * Social Forces,Francis Dodsworth, Open University *Table of Contents1 The Invisible History of Prisoner Radicalization 2 Islam in Prison 3 Prisoner Radicalization after 9/114 The Spectacular Few 5 Pathways to Terrorism 6 The Riddle of Radicalization 7 Al-Qaeda of California 8 The New Barbarians 9 Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement

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Book SynopsisArgues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind barsTrade ReviewIt is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary prison sociology radicalization, terrorism, and the fractured world we live in, as well as the changing landscape of prisons internationally. Hamm dedicates his book to John Irwin, an indication of his sociological spirit, and his deep immersion in the kinds of questions outstanding penologists ask. The kinds of questions Hamm is addressing require precisely that sociological spirit. * Crime, Law, and Social Change *This is a shrewd, moving and terrifying book. It describes the intensifying role of ideology (and the urge to civil action) in western prisons, showing powerfully how this development brings with it both & unprecedented security challenges and & exceptional possibilities for progressive reform. Hamms meticulous research, on trends in prisoner radicalization in American correctional institutions, shows that America is creating its own terrorists, in its failing prisons. -- Alison Liebling,co-author of The Prison OfficerMark Hamm is, without doubt, the worlds leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization. -- Peter Neumann,author of Old and New TerrorismThe Spectacular Few is a refreshing and important work, taking the apparently too-uncommon steps of talking to radical prisoners and performing statistical analyses on samples of radicals to test theories and measure practices. * Anthropology Review Database *Hamm's argument is intelligent, compassionate, and well argued....Hamm presents and argues his case well, and this book deserves a wide audience. * Social Forces,Francis Dodsworth, Open University *Table of Contents1 The Invisible History of Prisoner Radicalization 2 Islam in Prison 3 Prisoner Radicalization after 9/114 The Spectacular Few 5 Pathways to Terrorism 6 The Riddle of Radicalization 7 Al-Qaeda of California 8 The New Barbarians 9 Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating and personal journey through Jeff Ferrell''s eight month odyssey of living off the streetsPatrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city''s degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.from the IntroductionIn December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit worlds of scrounging, recycling, and second-hand living. Existing as a dumpster diver and trash picker, Ferrell adopted a way of life that was both field research and free-form survival. Riding around on his scrounged BMX bicycle, Ferrell investigated the million-dollar Trade ReviewA firecracker of a book. Prepare yourself for total immersion. It reads like Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell with a sense of fun; it has all the detail and magic of James Agee. A pleasure to read: anarchic, irreverent and totally relevant. -- Jock Young,co-editor of The New Politics of Crime and PunishmentBy turns moving, funny, and shocking. Particularly sobering are the books implications for modern consumer life, and the incomprehensible amounts of junk, waste and surplus generated by a modern city. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties AmericaI love this book! It's engaging, witty, and jarringevery page is filled with new treasures and powerful analyses of our throwaway culture. Ferrell opens a rare and vivid window on the raw aftermath of our society's conspicuous consumption and wasteful behavior, and he offers real possibilities for reflection, meditation, and redemption. -- David Naguib, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in ChicagoIn Empire of Scrounge, Jeff Ferrell serves as an unassuming guide into the netherworld of our own garbage. Ferrell suggests that such urban prospecting is possibly far more than simple recyclingit is a form of politics that consciously opts out of a vapid consumer culture. It's a must read! -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-editor of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass ImprisonmentOutstandingly well written, gripping, and hugely entertaining. Destined to become a classic, this anarchy of consumerism turns one man's 'trash' into a treasure: an insightful, colorful, imaginative and playful window on the underground economy of scavenging for a living among other people's cast offs. -- Stuart Henry, co-author of Essential CriminologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Sordid Signs 2 Street Life3 Street Knowledge 4 Salvage Operations 5 Scrapped Together 6 Scrunge City 7 Scrounging Zen Coda: Improvisations on the Everyday Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA battle cry for all women in their fight to be fully recognized as human beingsTrade ReviewBolstered by quotes and firsthand accounts, Flavin delivers eye-opening reports on topics including abortion rights, infant abandonment and battered women, detailing little-noticed or taken-for-granted policies that restrict and remand women. Written in a flowing academic style, Flavins attention to historical detail and unfailing moral compass make her progressive reexamination of womens rights thorough and convincing. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *In Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Flavin traces the life-and-death power that the little-examined patriarchal assumptions informing our common life can haveespecially among poor, nonwhite women. Flavin . . . supplies a sobering primer on the laws and social constraints that keep women from fully controlling their bodies. The case studies she surveys in Our Bodies, Our Crimes make it painfully clear that the freedom to decide how and when to reproduce is, for a huge swath of American women, just as important as the much more fervidly discussed question of how and when women can choose not to reproduce. * Bookforum *Flavin's book shows how American women, especially those who are poor or incarcerated, face societal pressure, stigma and even legal procedures in attempts to force them to become the "right" kind of mothersif they are deemed worthy of motherhood at all. * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *Highly recommended. * Choice *Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Jeanne Flavins thorough examination of the criminalization of female reproduction in America, is dense yet provocative. * make/shift *At last, a book that recognizes that reproductive rights encompass more than abortion rights. Our Bodies, Our Crimes covers all of the essential and highly controversial topics regarding the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice. -- Claire M. Renzetti,co-author of Women, Men, and SocietyOur Bodies, Our Crimes is a beautifully written and well researched book that makes an original and important contribution to the emerging social science literature on reproductive politics. I strongly recommend it. -- Carole Joffe,author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v WadeOur Bodies, Our Crimes is one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Flavins writing is exquisite and her documentation is careful and thorough. Whether informing the reader about reproductive freedom, battered women, or incarcerated women, she does so even-handedly and ably captures the complexities and depravities that real women and girls encounter every day in this country. Flavin draws on high profile cases, unknown cases, laws, policies, history, criminology research and much more to explain how her cases are decided by race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her book will help students, legal professionals, gender and legal scholars, and lay people to understand the common themes and threads of violence against women and girls and the sexism, racism, and classism in labeling girls and women deviant and criminals. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeIlluminates the dark corners of a public polity that holds pregnant women accountable for all aspects and outcomes of their reproduction without offering the compassion, education, or control necessary to produce happy endingsor beginnings. -- Jennifer Reich,author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare SystemTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Beginning 1 "Race Criminals": Reproductive Rights in America Part II Begetting 2 "Breeders": The Right to Procreate 3 "Back-Alley Butchers": Terminating Pregnancies 4 "Baby-Killers": Neonaticide and Infant Abandonment Part III Bearing 5 "Innocent Preborn Victims": Fetal Protectionism and Pregnant Women 6 "Liars and Whiners": Incarcerated Women's Right to Reproductive HealthPart IV Mothering 7 "Bad Mothers": Incarcerated Women's Ties to Their Children 8 "Asking for It": Battered Women and Child Custody Conclusion: Being Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAn important work documenting how the criminal justice system polices women''s reproductive capacityThe intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices such as shackling during labor and poor prenatal care. And decades after Roe, the criminalization of certain procedures and regulation of abortion providers still obstruct women's access to safe and private abortions.In this important work, JeTrade ReviewBolstered by quotes and firsthand accounts, Flavin delivers eye-opening reports on topics including abortion rights, infant abandonment and battered women, detailing little-noticed or taken-for-granted policies that restrict and remand women. Written in a flowing academic style, Flavins attention to historical detail and unfailing moral compass make her progressive reexamination of womens rights thorough and convincing. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *In Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Flavin traces the life-and-death power that the little-examined patriarchal assumptions informing our common life can haveespecially among poor, nonwhite women. Flavin . . . supplies a sobering primer on the laws and social constraints that keep women from fully controlling their bodies. The case studies she surveys in Our Bodies, Our Crimes make it painfully clear that the freedom to decide how and when to reproduce is, for a huge swath of American women, just as important as the much more fervidly discussed question of how and when women can choose not to reproduce. * Bookforum *Flavin's book shows how American women, especially those who are poor or incarcerated, face societal pressure, stigma and even legal procedures in attempts to force them to become the "right" kind of mothersif they are deemed worthy of motherhood at all. * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *Highly recommended. * Choice *Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Jeanne Flavins thorough examination of the criminalization of female reproduction in America, is dense yet provocative. * make/shift *At last, a book that recognizes that reproductive rights encompass more than abortion rights. Our Bodies, Our Crimes covers all of the essential and highly controversial topics regarding the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice. -- Claire M. Renzetti,co-author of Women, Men, and SocietyOur Bodies, Our Crimes is a beautifully written and well researched book that makes an original and important contribution to the emerging social science literature on reproductive politics. I strongly recommend it. -- Carole Joffe,author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v WadeOur Bodies, Our Crimes is one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Flavins writing is exquisite and her documentation is careful and thorough. Whether informing the reader about reproductive freedom, battered women, or incarcerated women, she does so even-handedly and ably captures the complexities and depravities that real women and girls encounter every day in this country. Flavin draws on high profile cases, unknown cases, laws, policies, history, criminology research and much more to explain how her cases are decided by race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her book will help students, legal professionals, gender and legal scholars, and lay people to understand the common themes and threads of violence against women and girls and the sexism, racism, and classism in labeling girls and women deviant and criminals. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeIlluminates the dark corners of a public polity that holds pregnant women accountable for all aspects and outcomes of their reproduction without offering the compassion, education, or control necessary to produce happy endingsor beginnings. -- Jennifer Reich,author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare SystemTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Beginning 1 "Race Criminals": Reproductive Rights in America Part II Begetting 2 "Breeders": The Right to Procreate 3 "Back-Alley Butchers": Terminating Pregnancies 4 "Baby-Killers": Neonaticide and Infant Abandonment Part III Bearing 5 "Innocent Preborn Victims": Fetal Protectionism and Pregnant Women 6 "Liars and Whiners": Incarcerated Women's Right to Reproductive HealthPart IV Mothering 7 "Bad Mothers": Incarcerated Women's Ties to Their Children 8 "Asking for It": Battered Women and Child Custody Conclusion: Being Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. The author provides rich descriptions and stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation.Trade ReviewI cannot recommend this book enough. I should add that it is highly readable at undergraduate levels. They should make it mandatory reading for criminologists and law enforcement members. * Global Sociology Blog *[A] beautifully complex picture of youth identity.Who You Claim is a & must-read for scholars interested not just in gangs, but also in youth identity, education, urban neighborhoods, and violence more generally. -- Andrew V. Papachristos * Contemporary Sociology *Garot should be commended for his well-written, exceptionally insightful school ethnography... I teach graduate courses on cultural differences and educational research, and plan to use this book as an example of how to design, execute, and present exemplary research, and most importantly, how to represent historically marginalized young people accurately, ethically, and in a manner that reveals their humanity in dehumanizing circumstances. -- Annette Hemmings, Teachers College RecordGarot has provided deep insight into an inner‒city alternative school showing how self identity can change and adjust to the surrounding circumstances and why gang identity is a variable that defies a fixed characterization. -- Diego Vigil,author of The Projects: Gang and Non‒Gang Families in East Los AngelesPath breaking and precedent-setting. Robert Garot has appreciated what no one has before, the essential shadow quality of urban gangs, which are not so much things one can be in as they are things danced around, avoided, played with, and very occasionally, practically invoked -- Jack Katz,author of How Emotions WorkWritten with the ink of theory, passion, fine attention to method and ethics, Garot represents with dignity the complex and strategic maneuverings of youth in gangs as he represents with humility the equally complex negotiations of a white guy ethnographer working with, for and beside urban youth.- -- Michelle Fine,co-author of Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools

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Book SynopsisThere are now more women committing crimes and serving sentences in prison than ever before. At the same time, women are often the victims of abuse, violence, and murder. Composed of contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women's relation to crime.Trade Review"The overall quality of this collection is excellent." * Criminal Justice Review *"Relying on recent work by a virtual who's who in the study of gender and crime, this book does exactly what is needed to significantly advance our thinking about the structure of the gender-crime nexus." -- Valerie Jenness,co-author of Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement"Gender and Crime is an exceptionally strong collection that focuses on the deep intersection of criminological theory and gendered violence. Through multiple lenses of sociological inquiry, this volume gifts us with a wealth of new perspectives on gendered violence." -- Jeffrey Fagan,co-editor of The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal CoTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Insights into the Gendered Nature of Crime and Victimization Karen Heimer and Candace KruttschnittPart I: Gendered Offending: Pathways, Situations, and Social Contexts1 In and Out of CrimePeggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Deines, and Stephen A. Cernkovich2 Stuck Up, Telling Lies, and Talking Too MuchJody Miller and Christopher W. Mullins3 No Place for Girls to GoHilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, and Marjorie S. Zatz4 Killing One's ChildrenRosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy5 The Crimes of PovertyKaren Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, and Halime UnalPart II: Gendered Victimization: Trajectories, Social Contexts, and Justice6 The Violent Victimization of WomenCandace Kruttschnitt and Ross Macmillan7 Predictors of Violent VictimizationLaura Dugan and Jennifer L. Castro8 Female and Male Homicide Victimization TrendsGary LaFree and Gwen Hunnicutt9 Restorative Justice for Victims of Sexual AssaultKathleen Daly and Sarah Curtis-FawleyPart III: Intersectionalities: Gender, Race, Poverty, and Crime10 Making Sense of Intersections Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs11 The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Violence against Women Janet L. Lauritsen and Callie Marie RennisonContributors Index

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Book SynopsisCar bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.Trade ReviewRead this book to understand the important nexus between terrorism and crime! This cutting edge analysis suggests a new approach to defeat the terrorist threat to the United States. -- Marc Sageman,author of Understanding Terror Networks[Provides] the first detailed account of how crime provides logistical support for terrorist strikes. By blending the study of terrorism and criminology, Hamm offers the possibility of detecting and stopping terrorism through the pursuit of conventional methods of criminal investigation. -- Gary LaFree,Director, START, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism University of Maryland Department of Criminology/DemocracyHamm's clear writing style, careful research and theoretical insights promise to make this a classic in criminology. -- William J. Chambliss,author of Power, Politics, and CrimeMark Hamms Terrorism as Crime deals with the problem of terrorism through a criminological lens, and it does so with skill and effectiveness. -- Brian Forst * Theoretical Criminology *Drawing on six case studies of terrorist attacks by radical Islamists and right-wing racists, Hamm writes that American counterterrorist agencies have neglected some basic insights from scholarly criminology. * The Chronicle of Higher Education *As a recognized expert in the field, Hamm is eminently qualified to prepare this text on the subject of terrorism from the criminal law perspective. . . . The text is written in a clear, lively manner. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Criminology of Terrorism Part I. Global Crime and Terrorism1. Criminal Stupidity and the Age of Sacred Terrorism: The First World Trade Center Bombing 2. Vulnerabilities of the Jihad-Prelude to 9/11: The U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and TanzaniaPart II. Domestic Crime and Terrorism3. The Legacy of Lost Causes: The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord 4. Charisma, Con?ict, and Style: The Order Part III. The Current State and Future of the Terrorism-Crime Connection5. The Seduction of Terrorist Mythology: The Aryan Republican Army 6. Al-Qaeda, the Radical Right, and Beyond: The Current Terrorist Threat NotesIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone eager to understand the political shifts of the Obama era needs to read Dombrinks new book. In clear, straightforward prose, Dombrink analyzes the growth of the Tea Party, the ebbing of the religious right, and the emergence of the & new culture wars. Dombrink shrewdly analyzes the changing role of religion in American politics, and offers a peek at whats to come. -- Diane H. Winston,author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation ArmyJohn Dombrinks The Twilight of Social Conservatism is essential reading to fully comprehend the social, political, and economic forces that are shaping, and will shape, the American future. -- Jerome Skolnick,co-author of Justice without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic SocietyAlthough written from a liberal perspective, the author is wrestling with the questions raised by rapidly changing electoral politics that scholars across the ideological spectrum are engaging. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconductTrade Review"Jammed Up is a must-read for police scholars and practitioners who want to understand police misconduct and how it impacts officers and organizations. Robert Kane and Michael White brilliantly weave their analysis of bad policing into layers of information that help us understand good policing. This comprehensive volume helps us understand how to investigate police misconduct and how to understand it. It is a complex book that uncovers the dark side of policing but keeps it in its proper context." -- Geoffrey P. Alpert,co-author of Policing: Continuity and Change"Jammed Up provides a lively empirical study of career-ending misconduct in the NYPD from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Interpreted through the lens of criminological theories of deviance and enriched by sketches of police officer miscreants, Jammed Up will be of interest to students, scholars and members of the general public who are curious about the causes of police delinquency." -- Jennifer Hunt,author of Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath"This study should be of great value to scholars, advanced students, and police practitioners." * Choice *"Not only is the book extremely well researched and complete with references and citations of the scientific literature pertaining to police misconduct studies, but the writing style is accessible to a general audience as it uses a character-driven model of police misconduct cases and examples." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This inside look at bad cops comes with a powerful corollary that demands further exploration: 'Good policing is not the absence of police misconduct.'" * New York Times *Table of ContentsJammed Up: An Introduction 2. What We Know and Don't Know about Police Misconduct3. Setting the Stage: An Historical Look at the New York Police Department4. Exploring Career-Ending Misconduct in the NYPD: Who, What, and How Often 5. Predicting Police Misconduct: How to Recognize the Bad Cops 6. The Department, the City, and Police Misconduct: Looking beyond the Bad Cop7. Explaining Bad Behavior: Can Criminology Help Us Understand Police Misconduct?8. What We Know about Being Jammed Up, and Transitioning to a Discourse on Good Policing

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the nuanced and layered realities of immigrants' lives, describing the varying complexities surrounding immigration, crime, law, and victimizationTrade ReviewContrary to public opinion, immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans, yet after 9/11 and in the midst of a stagnant economy, new anti-immigrant laws have emerged that have brutal consequences for unauthorized immigrantsand manifold unanticipated consequences for U.S. citizens, particularly Latinos. Punishing Immigrants brings these anticipated and unanticipated consequences to the fore, and vividly illustrates the & layered realities of immigrants lives at a time when social control and immigration is near an all-time high. -- Jennifer Lee,co-author of The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century AmericaPunishing Immigrants compellingly develops a new paradigm for understanding the role that punitive social control plays on marginalized immigrant populations. The authors develop a new paradigm--one that allows us to understand how crime control has become a primary mechanism for regulating immigration and vulnerable immigrant populations. This project brilliantly humanizes the lives of immigrant populations while rigorously addressing structural processes responsible for the breakup of families, the criminalization of children, and the dehumanization of entire populations. -- Victor M. Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino BoysTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Charis E. Kubrin, Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 2. Panic, Risk, ControlMichael Welch 3. Growing Tensions between Civic Membership and Enforcement in the Devolution of Immigration Control Doris Marie Provine, Monica Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, and Scott H. Decker 4. No SurprisesKyrsten Sinema 5. Unearthing and Confronting the Social Skeletons of Immigration Status in Our Criminal Justice System Evelyn H. Cruz 6. The Ruptures of Return: Deportation's Confounding Effects M. Kathleen Dingeman-Cerda and Susan Bibler Coutin 7. Race, Land, and Forced Migration in DarfurWenona Rymond-Richmond and John Hagan 8. Situating the Immigration and Neighborhood Crime Relationship across Multiple Cities Maria B. Velez and Christopher J. Lyons 9. Immigrant Inclusion and Prospects through Schooling in ItalyPaola Bertolini and Michele Lalla 10. Social Stressors, Special Vulnerabilities, and Violence Victimization among Latino Immigrant Day Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans Alice Cepeda, Nalini Negi, Kathryn Nowotny, James Arango, Charles Kaplan, and Avelardo Valdez 11. Conclusion Marjorie S. Zatz, Charis E. Kubrin, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSince the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.Trade ReviewThis book presents a thought-provoking and very readable account of why some (mostly affluent suburban) cities are relatively safe, while other (mostly impoverished inner) cities are not. Singer describes how adolescents in safe cities benefit from many sources of social support that help them to make a successful transition into young adulthood. -- David P. Farrington,author of of Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective InterventionTraditional delinquency theory is steeped in the world of impoverished inner cities and tough street corners. Yet today the sprawling suburbs are the setting for millions of adolescents struggling to make their way in a complex and technologically advanced world.Even in Americas & safest suburban enclavestypically showered with wealth and social servicesthe landscape is challenging and does not conform to popular stereotypes. Combining a rich set of original observations, detailed personal interviews, and surveys, Singer shows that while violent crime is rare, many a suburban teen is faltering. Delinquency and drug use are rampant and suicide tears at the social fabric. Simon Singers nuanced data and conceptualization of relational modernity provide a fresh perspective on the sources of delinquency in contemporary society. -- Robert J. Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood EffectAmericas Safest Cityis an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature.The material is eminently well organized, and the manuscript reads exceedingly well. This is one of those rare academic books which is hard to put down before reaching the end. * Society *Using a wealth of ethnographic research and detailed data, noted juvenile justice scholar Singer details how the occurrence of delinquency is effected and affected by where people live. . . . This volume is packed with solid, illuminating findings. * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 America's Safest Cities 15 2 Confronting Modernity and Adolescence 47 3 Relational Modernity 85 4 Beyond a Street-Corner View of Delinquency 109 5 The Trouble with Youth in America's Safest City 139 6 Suburbia's Discontents 179 7 Safe-City Offending 203 8 Safe Cities and the Struggle to Be Relationally Modern 245 Appendix 271 Notes 277 Index 293 About the Author 305

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Book SynopsisSince the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.Trade ReviewThis book presents a thought-provoking and very readable account of why some (mostly affluent suburban) cities are relatively safe, while other (mostly impoverished inner) cities are not. Singer describes how adolescents in safe cities benefit from many sources of social support that help them to make a successful transition into young adulthood. -- David P. Farrington,author of of Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective InterventionTraditional delinquency theory is steeped in the world of impoverished inner cities and tough street corners. Yet today the sprawling suburbs are the setting for millions of adolescents struggling to make their way in a complex and technologically advanced world.Even in Americas & safest suburban enclavestypically showered with wealth and social servicesthe landscape is challenging and does not conform to popular stereotypes. Combining a rich set of original observations, detailed personal interviews, and surveys, Singer shows that while violent crime is rare, many a suburban teen is faltering. Delinquency and drug use are rampant and suicide tears at the social fabric. Simon Singers nuanced data and conceptualization of relational modernity provide a fresh perspective on the sources of delinquency in contemporary society. -- Robert J. Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood EffectAmericas Safest Cityis an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature.The material is eminently well organized, and the manuscript reads exceedingly well. This is one of those rare academic books which is hard to put down before reaching the end. * Society *Using a wealth of ethnographic research and detailed data, noted juvenile justice scholar Singer details how the occurrence of delinquency is effected and affected by where people live. . . . This volume is packed with solid, illuminating findings. * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 America's Safest Cities 15 2 Confronting Modernity and Adolescence 47 3 Relational Modernity 85 4 Beyond a Street-Corner View of Delinquency 109 5 The Trouble with Youth in America's Safest City 139 6 Suburbia's Discontents 179 7 Safe-City Offending 203 8 Safe Cities and the Struggle to Be Relationally Modern 245 Appendix 271 Notes 277 Index 293 About the Author 305

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual livesTrade Review"Jill McCokels book is wonderful testimony to the power of ethnography to untangle and illuminate the complexities of otherwise hard-to-access social processes. And, despite chilling descriptions of PHW & confrontations, Breaking Women is ultimately satisfying to read because of McCorkels stimulating grasp of the social, political, economic, philosophical, and human rights issues raised by prison regimes that combine close surveillance of the body with brainwashing techniques directed at mind control and a breaking of & self, & spirit, & soul. I strongly recommend Breaking Women to anyone with an interest in ethnography. To everyone interested in justice, human rights and the politics of imprisonment Breaking Women is recommended as essential reading." * British Journal of Criminology *"Based on four years of ethnography and more than 100 interviews with PHWs stakeholders,Breaking Womenis an exceptionally well-researched piece of scholarship.McCorkel seamlessly weaves together history, politics, policy, and ethnography to form a complex, yet easy-to-follow, line of argumentation." * Teaching Sociology *"McCorkels work is an invaluable contribution to the examination of the politics of gender and race in the context of privatized correctional treatment. It offers a unique insight and adds to the scarce ethnographic research on womens prisons." * Social Service Review *"Breaking Women is a remarkable achievement. Jill McCorkel's long-awaited account raises critical questions about the social and psychological consequences of the current trend toward punitive, for-profit 'habilitation.' Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is prison ethnography at its best" -- Lorna Rhodes,author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison"It has been observed that the eclipse of the prison ethnography corresponded almost perfectly with the rise of mass incarceration. This hugely important book shows precisely why we need to reverse both trends. The womens stories that are so vividly captured in this work demonstrate in painful detail that efforts to & break human beings, even if in the name of reform, only succeed at creating more victims." -- Shadd Maruna,author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives"McCorkel does a superb job of bringing individual women to life for the reader, while simultaneously developing a strong and always readable theoretical analysis." -- Susan Sered * Women's Review of Book *"McCorkel's rich data contains the voices of prisoners and staff, which she skillfully links to larger, generally critical, theoretical perspectives on punishment." -- P.S. Leighton * CHOICE *"The book is an interesting, honest, and uncomplicated read, one that challenges current public views of how to care for inmates and reduce recidivism. The intended audience is foremost students and teachers in the field of sociology, criminology and gender studies, but the book is equally accessible to those interested in the prison system, its effects on women, as well as how programs meant to habilitate women are implemented, along with their rates of success or attrition." -- Hennie Weiss * Metapsychology *"This is the book so many sociologists of punishment, law, and gender have been waiting for. Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued, Breaking Women takes readers inside the U.S. penal system to analyze how its overall structure and concrete practices changed in the era of mass incarceration. Through a captivating and absorbing ethnographic account of a prison drug treatment program for women, the book traces how a particularly gendered mode of punishment emerged to discipline and humiliate women. In this way, McCorkel shows how our images of 'get tough' criminal policies and practices must change to encompass not only the inmate warehousing of overcrowded correctional facilities, but also some of the smaller, 'alternative' programs that reach inside inmates' heads to transform their sense of self." -- Lynne Haney,author of Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire"Jill McCorkel further extends the implications of such an invisibilized incarceration of black women with her seminal monograph,Breaking Women. She delves into the hidden hallways of prisons, intimately detailing a drug treatment program that was initially tested in one of California's largest women's prisons and that has since been replicated across the United States." * WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Red's Self Part I: The End of Rehabilitation1 Getting Tough on Women: How Punishment Changed 2 Taking Over: The Private Company in the Public Prison 3 From Good Girls to Real Criminals: Race Made Visible Part II: The Practice of Habilitation4 The Eyes Are Watching You: Finding the Real Self 5 Diseased Women: Crack Whores, Bad Mothers, and Welfare Queens Part III: Contesting the Boundaries of Self6 Rentin' Out Your Head: Navigating Claims about the Self 7 Unruly Selves: Forms of Prisoner Resistance Conclusion: What If the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease? Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rulesis a wonderful testament to the power of ethnography and street-level observations of various alternative means of violence suppression. It provides the possibility of the state resourcing alternative institutions as a means to alleviate inequality. Importantly, these institutions include public education, the churches, and various nonprofit groups who choose to work in high-crime communities." * International Criminal Justice Review *"Martinez undertakes a critical and relevant topic that contributes across many fields. His rich, extensive ethnographic work captures the nature of race relations between Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles . . . [and] accounts for how residents do in fact engage their communities in the hope of improvement and how they create their own rules and relations. This book will prove to be a seminal one in its field and across disciplines." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"This book confronts head on the issues of violence and social disorganization among the poor. Cid Martinez has provided new insights into the workings of various local institutions in establishing social order. This is an excellent example of ethnography at its best and an important contribution to the field." -- Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,author of Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods"In this compelling ethnography, Cid Martinez crosses institutional settings to understand how violence is managed by residents of the inner city. He meticulously describes how informal institutions create a rule of law when the state fails to penetrate the social order. Martinezs assessment of alternative governance in the inner city is a brilliant work of urban sociology providing a perfect balance between thick description and theory development. This ground-breaking book makes a timely and crucial contribution to the study of urban poverty, policing, violence and race relations." -- Victor Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"Cid Gregory Martinezs The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules helps bridge two gulfs in the urban ethnographic literature and its longstanding interest in social dis/organization: the limited attention paid to interracial neighborhoods and the implications of the rise of Latin American immigration, particularly in neighborhoods formerly segregated along white-black racial lines." * American Journal of Sociology *"Scholars will find in the book an important argument regarding the contributions made by some religious institutions to making our poorest urban communities more livable and inviting." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *

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Book SynopsisConsiders race and ethnicity as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. This volume argues that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviours criminal, and the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances.Trade ReviewShines a new, critical light on race, ethnicity, crime and justice. The text pushes us to consider how these terms are defined, what's missing from our conventional analyses and ultimately why and how race matters in discussions of justice. -- Katheryn Russell-Brown,author of The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other MacroaggressionsThe most comprehensive treatment to date of the relationship between race, ethnicity, and crime. This collection will be valuable to practitioners and criminological theorists alike because it contains vast amounts of data on the topic, then orders and interprets these data with a strong socio-historical lens, enhanced by a comparative perspective. -- Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to EugenicsWith a distinguished cast of scholars, this book makes a major contribution to the field in its framing of a very complex social problem. -- Simon I. Singer,author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice ReformWith a dedicated focus on race and ethnicity, and through an examination of heretofore neglected groups (e.g., Haitian immigrants and rural blacks), the authors both broaden and deepen our understanding of the influence of race and ethnicity, often surprising us with their results. . . . The editors have assembled an impressive group of contributors who bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the table and also remind us how time-tested constructs such as social disorganization, informal social control, and the culture of violence can be applied in ways that allow us to learn something new about race, ethnicity, and crime. . . . The Many Colors of Crime is an important book not only for criminologists but also for those with an interest in race and ethnicity generally. * American Journal of Sociology *The volume’s devotion to establishing comparative studies of racial and ethnic groups and to acknowledging regional and temporal variances yields productive insights into structural and social inequalities in the United States. * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing FieldsPart I Constructs and Conceptual Approaches2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice 3 Demythologizing the "Criminalblackman"4 Race and the Justice WorkforcePart II Populations and Intersectionalities5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City7 Crime and Deviance in the "Black Belt"8 Crime at the Intersections9 Race, Inequality, and Gender ViolencePart III Contexts and Settings10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest RatesNarrowing? 11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence 12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City,1985-1996 Part IV Mechanisms and Processes15 Creating Racial Disadvantage16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control 17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Con?ictTheory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of ViolenceBibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening examination of African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuseTrade ReviewBattle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall,co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American CommunitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Call 2 Black Feminist Criminology and the Power of Narrative: "I Just Wanted to Tell My Story" 3 Dynamic Resistance: "I'm a Strong Black Woman" 4 Surviving Childhood: "I Learned to Stand up for Myself " 5 Living Through It: "He Made Me Believe He Was Something He Wasn't" 6 Fighting Back: "You Want to Fight? We Gonna Fight!" 7 Getting Out: "We Have to Pray to God and Hope Everything Works Out" 8 Conclusion: The Response Appendix A: Research Methods and Demographics Appendix B: Pseudonyms and Demographic Information Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening examination of African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuseTrade Review"Battle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S." -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall,co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American CommunitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Call 2 Black Feminist Criminology and the Power of Narrative: "I Just Wanted to Tell My Story" 3 Dynamic Resistance: "I'm a Strong Black Woman" 4 Surviving Childhood: "I Learned to Stand up for Myself " 5 Living Through It: "He Made Me Believe He Was Something He Wasn't" 6 Fighting Back: "You Want to Fight? We Gonna Fight!" 7 Getting Out: "We Have to Pray to God and Hope Everything Works Out" 8 Conclusion: The Response Appendix A: Research Methods and Demographics Appendix B: Pseudonyms and Demographic Information Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. This title presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, and offers insights into which trends have declined and why. It considers the indicators such as employment, labour market opportunities, skill levels, and housing.Trade Review"Essential." * Choice *"All of this can be summarized in the following three reasons that Parkers book is important: she begins with a question that deserves an answer, she demonstrates how that question is far more complex than most have thought, and she offers an answer that is theoretically rich." * Contemporary Sociology *"Her analysis is not only a thorough review of the debate on the link between violent crime and unemployment; it is an exploration into the complex intertwining between ethnicity, gender, population composition and political economy in violent crime . . . a hugely rewarding read." * British Journal of Criminology *"Parkers theoretical integration is so straightforward and intuitive that it makes one wonder why it took so long for sociologists to consider such an amalgamation. Sociologists interested in the urban economy should seriously consider the ways in which labor market changes stratify racial groups along dimensions of crime and violence. Meanwhile, criminologists would do well to heed Parkers call for a richer and more dynamic theoretical treatment of the economy in their models of changing crime rates." * American Journal of Sociology *"Parker's book is an important addition to our understanding of the crime drop of the 1990s. In fact, her research sheds new light on this important social trend, dispels myths that continue to surround it, and demonstrates how criminology theory has not been particularly relevant to our understanding of how and why it occured." -- Bruce D. Stout * Journal of American Ethnic History *"The absence of obfuscation is exemplary and this unpretentious text is student-friendly as well as useful for all postgraduate students, academics and policy-makers who wish to furnish themselves with a clear, empirically grounded and sophisticated picture of the 'crime drop'" -- Steve Hall * Urban Studies Journal *"The crime decline that began in the early 1990s and ran for more than a decade is the largest sustained drop in crime rates ever recorded in the United Statesand yet this remarkable event has gone largely unheralded. Parker illuminates this unexplored terrain by shining a light on the unevenness of the decline across key subgroups defined especially by race, gender and class. Her book is required reading for anyone interested in the make up of this fascinating piece of criminology history." -- Gary LaFree,author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America"There has been much speculation as to the source and meaning of the crime drop of the 1990s. Yet, relatively unexamined is whether crime rates declined uniformly across all groups and, if not why not? In this important book, Parker carefully examines homicide trends for different combinations of race and gender specific groups over three decades and convinces us that crime trends are far from uniform. What then accounts for the race and gender disparities in homicide trends? Parker offers more nuanced explanations by exploring how changes in the urban landscape over several decades have differentially affected blacks and whites and males and females. Parkers book is a significant achievement, merging sophisticated quantitative techniques and analysis with sociological insights about structural changes in our cities that also affect urban crime rates. She has raised important questions about the crime drop and at the same time has provided a number of new directions for future research. This is a provocative and stimulating book which should prompt criminologists to more carefully deconstruct crime patterns and trends by race and gender." -- Sally S. Simpson,author of Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are used to construct difference for both the heroes and the villains in ways that are both conservative and progressiveTrade ReviewComic Book Crime is an important book devoted to a medium that has long been dismissed. -- Scott Elingburg * Popmatters *Another important and original contribution to cultural criminology and the study of popular culture more generally. Phillips' and Strobl's work lays out the primacy of crime, violence, hegemony, and retribution to American conceptualizations of mythic justice. -- Michelle Brown,co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular CultureCarrying ahead the project of cultural criminology, Phillips and Strobl dare to take seriously that which amuses and entertains usand to find in it the most significant of themes. Audiences, images, ideologies of justice and injusticeall populate the pages of Comic Book Crime. The result is an analysis as colorful as a good comic, and as sharp as the point on a superheros sword. -- Jeff Ferrell,author of Empire of ScroungeInnovative, exciting, and truly interdisciplinary, Phillips and Strobl pen a wonderful book on the iconic cultural figures in contemporary American comic books. Phillips and Strobl use criminal justice, criminology, law, history, sociology, and related social sciences to argue that comic books and the characters that inhabit those spaces constitute a rather comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in America. Phillips and Strobl's book is made up of 10 succinct chapters, all edgy and creative. The book's most persuasive component may be the final substantive chapter in which Phillips and Strobl present the impact of this attention to crime fighting, which has led to astronomical numbers of Americans incarcerated. If readers were to only read one chapter of the book, it should be the final chapter....Comic Book Crimeis an essential book for anyone interested in truth, justice, and the American way, but more importantly who defines those notions and how.Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- A.R.S. Lorenz * CHOICE *Philips and Strobl are criminologists, and they take a distinctly criminological approach to their examination of stories about law and order in comic books, but their book should appeal to all social science and humanities scholars with an interest in comics. The authors are also comic book insiders who volunteer to serve as patient mentors to those of us who are new to the genre, explaining key words like & retcon, and core processes like & crossover event. This is a very accessible guide for the comic book newcomer that is also mindful of & fanboy readers. * Men and Masculinities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Holy Criminology, Batman! Comics and Constructions of Crime and Justice 2 "Crime Doesn't Pay"A Brief History of Crime and Justice Themes in Comic Books 3 The World Is ShiftingTerrorism, Xenophobia, and Comic Books after 9/11 4 A Better TomorrowApocalypse, Utopia, and the Crime Problem 5 "That's the Trouble with a Bad Seed"Villains and the Embodiment of Evil 6 "Aren't We Supposed to Be the Good Guys?"Heroes, Deathworthiness, and Paths to Justice 7 "Take Down the Bad Guys, Save the Girl"Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Comic Book Justice 8 "Aren't There Any Brown People in This World?"Race, Ethinicity, and Crime Fighting 9 Apocalyptic IncapacitationThe "Maximum-Maximum" Response to Crime 10 ConclusionUltimate Justice Appendix: Sample and methodology Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Neighborhood Has Its Own Rulesis a wonderful testament to the power of ethnography and street-level observations of various alternative means of violence suppression. It provides the possibility of the state resourcing alternative institutions as a means to alleviate inequality. Importantly, these institutions include public education, the churches, and various nonprofit groups who choose to work in high-crime communities. * International Criminal Justice Review *Martinez undertakes a critical and relevant topic that contributes across many fields. His rich, extensive ethnographic work captures the nature of race relations between Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles . . . [and] accounts for how residents do in fact engage their communities in the hope of improvement and how they create their own rules and relations. This book will prove to be a seminal one in its field and across disciplines. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *This book confronts head on the issues of violence and social disorganization among the poor. Cid Martinez has provided new insights into the workings of various local institutions in establishing social order. This is an excellent example of ethnography at its best and an important contribution to the field. -- Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,author of Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor NeighborhoodsIn this compelling ethnography, Cid Martinez crosses institutional settings to understand how violence is managed by residents of the inner city. He meticulously describes how informal institutions create a rule of law when the state fails to penetrate the social order. Martinezs assessment of alternative governance in the inner city is a brilliant work of urban sociology providing a perfect balance between thick description and theory development. This ground-breaking book makes a timely and crucial contribution to the study of urban poverty, policing, violence and race relations. -- Victor Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino BoysCid Gregory Martinezs The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules helps bridge two gulfs in the urban ethnographic literature and its longstanding interest in social dis/organization: the limited attention paid to interracial neighborhoods and the implications of the rise of Latin American immigration, particularly in neighborhoods formerly segregated along white-black racial lines. * American Journal of Sociology *Scholars will find in the book an important argument regarding the contributions made by some religious institutions to making our poorest urban communities more livable and inviting. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *

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Book SynopsisWinner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political ScientistsExamines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisonersFelony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons' efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to live with them. In many states, those with felony convictions cannot receive financial aid for further education, vote in elections, receive welfare benefits, or live in public housing. In short, they are not treated as full citizens, and every year, hundreds of thousands of people released from prison are forced to live on thTrade Review"Convicted and Condemned is one of the best ethnographic and first person accounts I have read, which sheds life on the real and tangible effects of public policies. It is an outstanding multi-layered analysis of prisoner reentry that includes public policies and lived experiences and provides a unique perspective to understanding prisoner reentry. A must read book for those responsible for policy making and working with this population." -- Byron Price,Author of Merchandizing Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison Privatization"This fascinating book offers a sharp policy analysis and introduces a powerful framework for making sense of the experiences of those with a felony conviction. Keesha Middlemass provides an expert account of the various ways that a felony status is socially constructed and the implications of this construction for those with felony convictions in the years following their release from incarceration." -- Nikki Jones,Author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence"The narrative in this important, impassioned book is strengthened by the voices of those stigmatizedmale and female, black and whiteseeking to find their footing in a hostile environment." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisProbes the social, economic, and political organization of prostitution and sex traffickingTrade Review"In recent times some scholars have begun to question some commonly held beliefs on the relation between sex trafficking and prostitution. Along this path of inquiry, Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking is a meaningful and interesting contribution, which challenges the conventional wisdom about sex trafficking that guides national and international regulatory frameworks. [] The book will certainly be of interest to readers of this Journal. It is well written and suitable to both an experienced and non-specialist audience. It should be valuable not only to scholars in the fields of criminology, sociology, and gender studies, but also to all those interested in the complex relation between sex trafficking and prostitution such as policy-makers and social activists." * Trends in Organized Crime *"Selling Sex Overseasis an important and timely book. It should prompt scholars, policymakers and advocates to reexamine previously held assumptions about sex trafficking and prostitution. Chin and Finckenauer demonstrate that researchers can reach key actors in the sex industry and build the rapport necessary to learn about their experiences....Selling Sex Overseasis an excellent read. It should provoke important conversations about both the nature of the transnational commercial sex industry and the problem of trafficking persons for sex." -- Amy Farrell * Rutgers: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"[The authors'] work thus has implications for national and international public policies. I highly recommend this book for scholars in fields of sociology, gender studies, and area studies." -- Shu-Ju Ada Cheng,Associate Professor in Sociology, DePaul University"A groundbreaking and riveting book, providing a fascinating picture of Asian sex markets. The authors mine a mountain of field data on the experiences of Chinese women who migrate to cities in Asia and beyond in search of work in the sex industry. Sociologically rich and highly policy relevant, the book offers a unique window into the complex and variegated nature of both transnational migration and sexual commerce." -- Ronald Weitzer,author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business"Impressive in its scope, Selling Sex Overseas is sure to challenge conventional wisdom about sex trafficking. The authors call forand execution ofcomprehensive empirical research makes it a significant contribution to the growing body of work seeking to improve our understanding of the transnational organization of commercial sex and to confront the often harmful assumptions about the nature and extent of sexual slavery that guide national and international policy." -- Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence"This fascinating book takes you inside the trafficking of Asian women. . . .explaining how the system works who are the traffickers, where does their money go and how corruption allows this business to persist. A unique work that will be valuable to scholars, policy-makers and all those trying to understand the complexity of trafficking in a part of the world where the problem is so pervasive." -- Louise Shelley,author of Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective"This kind of book can appeal to both abolitionists who write about human trafficking and to sex-positive feminists who provide empirical weight to women's agency and their choice to engage in sexual commerce." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is Sex Trafficking? 2. Going Down to the Sea 3. The Women 4. The Destinations 5. The Sex Markets 6. The Traffickers 7. Supply and Demand: Follow the Money 8. Response and Rescue: How the System Works 9. The Reality and the Myths: A Critical Analysis of Sex Trafficking 10. The Politics of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and ethnic profiling and police bias.Trade ReviewThis timely and comprehensive volume sheds badly-needed light on the complex interaction between police and communities of color. Few issues rank higher on the nation's justice reform agenda. Get it right, and we enhance police legitimacy and reduce crime; get it wrong, and we create inner city tinderboxes. This formidable compendium of scholarship will help us get it right. -- Jeremy Travis,President, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeThis timely volume brings together the leading scholars on the topic of race, ethnicity and policing in one collection. The selections provide a solid, evidence based treatment of the key criminal justice issue of our time. -- Scott H. Decker,co-author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and CommunityTable of ContentsIntroduction Overview 1 A Sketch of the Policeman's Working Personality 2 Driving While Black 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts 6 Racially Biased Policing 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing 9 Beyond Stop Rates 10 State of the Science in Racial Profi ling Research 11 Driving While Black 12 Citizens' Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates 15 Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER 17 Space, Place, and Immigration 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research 19 New Avenues for Profi ling and Bias Research 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls 21 Democratic Policing 22 Moving Beyond Profiling: The Virtues of RandomizationAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violenceBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impactedactivism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women. Richie argues that Black women face particular peril because of the ways that race and culture have not figured centrally enough in the analysis of the causes and consequences of gender violence. As a result, the extent of physical, sexual and other forms of violence in the lives of Black women, the various forms iTrade ReviewThis book provokes outrage and affords insight. * American Studies *Required reading for anyone interested in violence against women, black feminist theory, mass incarceration, or the welfare state. Essential for all levels/libraries. * Choice *As a testament to the crumbling status of Black women in America, Richies book is a natural read for academic scholars in a variety of disciplines including Black studies, womens studies, sociology, and criminology. Furthermore, this book is useful for informing future policy and enlightening policy makers as to the weight and consequences of their actions. * Journal of African American Studies *Beth E. Richie...uses her expertise to reveal the hidden experience of black women living in marginalized communities. With over 25 years of work as a black feminist scholar and anti-violence activist, Richie tackles the extremely complicated interplay of race, gender and class that is causing violence against black women. * Salon.com *Her new book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation, is a critical examination and re-examination of several of the issues Richie has been writing about and working on for many years: prisons, the criminal legal/justice system, and the particular vulnerabilities of women and African-American women in particular as they operate at the intersection of what Richie and many other scholars point to as a profoundly racist and misogynistic system. -- Yasmin Nair * Windy City Times *A powerful and insightful call to action. Richie offers us a richly complex yet deeply usable analysis, rooted in a passionate commitment to producing knowledge that can change us and transform the world. Richie challenges us to ask ourselves what it would mean if we were to put the lives of the most stigmatized and the most violated at the center of our social justice work. The stories of injustice, survival and courage in these pages will stay with the reader long after turning the last page. -- Julia C. Oparah,editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial ComplexNo one writes with passion like Beth Richie to convey the degree of danger the most marginalized women in our country are in. If there is one book you read to understand better why poor Black women are in continual dangerand several suggested ways of thinking about changing these conditions, then this is the book to read. -- Natalie J. Sokoloff,editor of The Criminal Justice System and WomenRichie expertly and chillingly documents the convergence of individual and structural racism, economic exploitation, and political disenfranchisement in the devastating gendered violence against the most disadvantaged Black women and girls.Arrested Justice represents the intersections of oppression at their most extreme. The book is frightening, enraging, and should be read by everyone. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeBy narrowing the scope of gender, violence, and crime more specifically to the U.S. case, she assesses both national and localized stories that reveal the fragility of black female lives in a nation driven by securing and maintaining prison profits...Even more profound, however, is the engagement Richie enforces with uncomfortable and long-avoided topics, including stalking, neighborhood assaults, incest, intimate partner abuse, rape, and even pervasive sexual harassment committed by the police in poor communities. * WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly *I hope all activists and scholarswomen of color and white women, young and oldread this book and from it, learn how stacked the system is against women of color, especially poor women. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction 2 The Problem of Male Violence against Black Women 3 How We Won the Mainstream but Lost the Movement 4 Black Women, Male Violence, and the Buildup of a Prison Nation 5 The Matrix: A Black Feminist Response to Male Violence and the State 6 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFocusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, this book explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work.Trade Review"Leaving Prostitutionchallenges us to notice the vulnerability women experience as street prostitutes but also to honor the choices women make and the strength and commitment they demonstrate as they create new lives away from the street." * PsycCRITQUES *"Leaving Prostitution is a major contribution to our understanding of sex work. Through an in-depth examination of organizations that help women transition out of street prostitution, Sharon Oselin sheds light on a dimension of sex work that has rarely been researched. The book illuminates both the organizational dynamics of different agencies and the conditions involved in the process of exiting prostitution. No other book examines this topic in such depth." -- Ronald Weitzer,author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business"Oselins book is an all too rare, wide angled look at organizations helping individuals exit stigmatized and illegal subcultures and the conditions that determine success. What she finds is shocking despite the vast attention devoted to & saving prostitutes, the long term, often expensive residential programs most successful in countering the stigmatizing, criminalized world of the streets, are rare. Troubling all easy narratives about prostitution, this book will be an eye opener for policy makers and service providers hoping to help those who want to leave the streets/exit stigmatizing and illegal subcultures." -- Barbara Brents,co-author of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American HeartlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Leaving the Tricks and the Trade 2. All in a Day's Work: The Good, Bad, and Ugly 3. Getting In: From the Streets to the Program 4. Getting On: Role Distancing 5. Still Getting On: Embracing a New Role and Identity 6. Getting Out: Remaining Out of Sex Work Methodological Appendix Notes References IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisFaced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated with a growing disenfranchised population, then mayor Rudolph Giuliani led New York's zero tolerance campaign against what was perceived to be an increase in disorder that directly threatened social and economic stability. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"City of Disorder offers something bracing for liberal policy-makers in New York: a blueprint for the realization of their humanistic values through an array of more muscular, activist policies. They should study it and learn from it." -- Robert Neuwirth * City Limits WEEKLY *"City of Disorder has added enormously to our understanding of the context in which the crime declines of the 1980s and 90s took place. Future discussions of what happened in New York City must take this book into account. A great read and a real contribution to our understanding of the era." -- George Kelling,co-author of Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities"In City of Disorder, Vitale provides a wise and balanced analysis of the preoccupation with social order in New York City that flowered under Giuliani's watch. On the one side, neoliberal housing and employment markets were increasing the numbers of people who were displaced and homeless. The failure of government on all levels to regulate the market forces driving this development, or to intervene to provide alternatives for the people affected, meant that people coped as they always have, by camping on the streets and panhandling, and by turning to drugs and drink. These behaviors in turn created popular political support for the coercive social controls that came to characterize city policy in the nineties. But neither the homeless nor the public were responsible for the limited alternatives which drove this mean result." -- Frances Fox Piven,author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism"Vitale makes a powerful, and likely irrefutable, case that New York City mayors could have made major inroads in reducing homelessness had they adopted more progressive land use policies. This part of the book alone is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about homelessness. Readers across the nation will benefit from what is now clearly one of the best books ever written about urban homelessness." -- Randy Shaw * BeyondChron.org *"Vitale presents an important critical analysis of "quality of life" and "zero tolerance" policing that have serious civil rights and civil liberties implications and are too often accepted, without careful scrutiny, as the solution to urban problems." -- Donna Lieberman,Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties UnionTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Conceptualizing the Paradigm Shift 2 De?ning the Quality-of-Life Paradigm 3 De?ning Urban Liberalism 4 The Rise of Disorder 5 Globalization and the Urban Crisis 6 The Transformation of Policing 7 The Community BacklashConclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this first comparative analysis of men's and women's prisons, Dana Britton identifies the factors that influence the genderization of the American workplace, a process that often leaves women in lower-paying jobs with less prestige and responsibility.Trade Review"At Work in the Iron Cage brings a wholly new and more realistic vision of America's prisons, and the male and female correctional officers who staff them. This is an impressive book, one that provokes fascinating insights into the American prison system, for researchers and policymakers alike." -- Patricia A. Roos,Rutgers University"In this cleverly conceived study, Britton shows that women encounter sexism on both sides of the prison bars. This book is the first truly comparative case study of a gendered organization that will surely change popular and scholarly views of life inside the iron cage." -- Christine Williams,Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin"This is a splendid piece of research about troubling and important issues. Dana Britton has written a clear, often vivid, account of the realities of prison work - far from the media images. She shows how gender stereotypes and gender divisions of labour shape this work and the lives of the people who do it. This is a most valuable book for all who are interested in gender questions, in organizational life, or in the consequences of the recent growth of the prison system." -- R.W.Connell,author of Masculinities and Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics"An important and significant contribution. . . . A study of the social construction of gender and how culture and agency influence the meaning of work . . . vivid and compelling." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Engendering the Prison 2 Penology in America: Men's and Women's Prisons as Gendered Projects 3 From Turkey to Of?cer: Prison Work in Historical Perspective 4 Paths to Prison 5 Work with Inmates 6 The Rest of the Job: Coworkers, Supervisors, and Satisfaction 7 Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system.Trade ReviewA well written memoir and expose of life inside a privately owned correctional facility. The author does an excellent job at depicting what it is really like inside and the dangerous and harrowing experience for individuals incarcerated in these types of environments. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, co-author of Convict CriminologySomething changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don't know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me. * Prison, Inc. *This is the story of what happens when politicians 'out source' their state prisoners to corporations. Convicts become commodities incarcerated in overcrowded private facilities with few programs and staff. Like & boot camps, & three strikes, and so called & truth in sentencing, private prisons are another expensive failure. Meanwhile, the prisoners live day-to-day wondering what new nightmare they will have to endure. -- Stephen C. Richards,co-author of Behind Bars: Surviving PrisonIt helps fill in the eclipse of prison ethnography in the current age of mass incarceration . . . It should be in every library in the United States. * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsForewordThomas J. BernardAcknowledgments Part I Welcome to Enterprise1 The Politics of Enterprise Prison 2 Orientation 3 New Prison Problems Part II Guerrilla Warfare4 Wild Wild West 5 Beat Down Crew 6 The Zoo Part III My Tour7 Caught Up 8 The Other Enemy 9 Gang Related 10 Seg Time Part IV An Exercise in Futility11 Riot 12 Lockdown 13 Aftermath Part V Taking Control14 The Masters15 The Servants 16 The Power Part VI Analysis17 Factors Contributing to Violence and Its Control Notes GlossaryAbout the Author and the Editor

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Book SynopsisGaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anaraki chronicles the lives of current and former substance users in Iran in prisons, treatment centres, and NGOs. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to ‘normalize’ them.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Reading John Hagedorn, Mike Davis Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Are Gangs Everywhere? I. Globalizing Gangs 1. Ghetto, Favela, and Township: The Worlds Gangs Live In 2. Street Institutions: Why Some Gangs Won't Go Away 3. The Problem with Definitions: The Questionable Uniqueness of Gangs 4. From Chicago to Mumbai: Touring the World of Gangs II. Race, Space, and the Power of Identity 5. No Way Out: Demoralization, Racism, and Resistance Identity 6. A Tale of Two Gangs: The Hamburgs and the Conservative Vice Lords 7. Reconsidering Culture: Race, Rap, and Resistance 8. Street Wars: Hip Hop and the Rise of Gangsta Culture 9. Contested Cities: Gentrification and the Ghetto Conclusion: A Rose in the Cracks of Concrete Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school studentsTrade Review"Police in the Hallways presents a detailed ethnographic analysis of the ways in which discipline policies in New York schools have influenced the education and social experience of young people in so-called impact schools. Kathleen Nolan uncovers the complexity of the issues and exposes the unfairness of the policies in a subtle yet compelling manner." —Pedro Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education"Anyone interested in education in American should definitely take this sobering journey into life in an urban high school." —Library JournalTable of ContentsContentsForewordPaul WillisIntroduction. Studying Urban School Discipline: A Bronx Tale1. How the Police Took Over School Discipline: From Policies of Inclusion to Punishment and Exclusion2. Signs of the Times: Place, Culture, and Control at Urban Public High School3. Instituting the Culture of Control: Disciplinary Practices and Order Maintenance4. Against the Law: Student Noncompliance and Contestation5. Tensions between Educational Approaches and Discourses of Control 6. The Underlife: Oppositional Behavior at Urban Public High School7. Living Proof: Experiences of Economic and Educational ExclusionConclusion: Recommendations for Effective Urban Schooling and Sound DisciplineAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Despite the weight of the subject matter—urban crime in a violent city—Security in the Bubble goes against the grain of critical scholarship, evoking a new language to capture the fine-grained and culturally attuned spatial practices of identity. As a consequence, novel insights and experiences reveal contemporary urbanity in all its contradictory fullness. This is vital and beautifully crafted urbanism."—Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town"Christine Hentschel’s theoretically sharp book shows how the pursuit of security dynamically organizes—and simultaneously fragments—urban life. In a major contribution to criminology as well as to urban studies, Hentschel acknowledges the reality of violence and fear but, refreshingly, avoids dystopian clichés in a work that is as relevant for Chicago and Detroit as it is for Rio and Bogotá."—Mariana Valverde, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spatial Governance from Death to Life1. The Politics of Crime and Space in South Africa2. Seeing Like a City: Conceptual Devices3. Handsome Space: Governing through Flirting4. Instant Space: Governing through FleeingConclusion: Making Love to the CityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHomicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar. Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same. The central thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental disease or the disease in itself. It is possible to trace these phenomena throughout the history of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice. A secondary thesis of the book is that psychiatrists have used these phenomena as predictors and markers in the practicalTrade Review"Colaizzi, a research historian, has done an excellent, scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness, including all the players in this sad, cruel game... the psychiatrist, the afflicted, the official authorities, and finally, society at large." - Academic Library Book Review

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas.Trade Review“An extremely important contribution to South African scholarship but also offers a wealth of findings for comparative scholarship in the fields of colonialism, state formation, police science, criminology, resistance, migration, and gender studies.”“Gary Kynoch’s engaging book examines how gangs of Basotho migrants used violence and crime to survive under the harsh conditions of everyday life in apartheid South Africa … Kynoch’s well-researched study expands our knowledge of the history of Basotho migrancy to South Africa’s gold mines … Kynoch must be applauded.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is a groundbreaking study that will force researchers in many different fields to investigate anew such issues as the complexity of Black township life under apartheid, the origins of South African violence and crime, gender relationships in the Black community, the underground economy, migration, urbanization, and resistance up to the present day. It is a book that should be in all research libraries, and that all South African scholars will find interesting and stimulating.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“A rich and provocative look at gang activity and crime in South Africa.... An intriguing and thoughtful book.” * University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas.Trade Review“An extremely important contribution to South African scholarship but also offers a wealth of findings for comparative scholarship in the fields of colonialism, state formation, police science, criminology, resistance, migration, and gender studies.”“Gary Kynoch’s engaging book examines how gangs of Basotho migrants used violence and crime to survive under the harsh conditions of everyday life in apartheid South Africa … Kynoch’s well-researched study expands our knowledge of the history of Basotho migrancy to South Africa’s gold mines … Kynoch must be applauded.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is a groundbreaking study that will force researchers in many different fields to investigate anew such issues as the complexity of Black township life under apartheid, the origins of South African violence and crime, gender relationships in the Black community, the underground economy, migration, urbanization, and resistance up to the present day. It is a book that should be in all research libraries, and that all South African scholars will find interesting and stimulating.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“A rich and provocative look at gang activity and crime in South Africa.... An intriguing and thoughtful book.” * University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisRepresenting a wave of legal history that has emerged in recent years, this title presents essays about the relationship between ordinary people and the law. It is suitable for scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social and cultural history of law.Trade Review“This collection makes clear, through well-researched case studies and specific examples, that the law and legal institutions have had a more important role in maintaining the social order and the regulation of contention in Latin American history than previously revealed. As such, it will have a crucial impact on this and other fields.”——Thomas H. Holloway, University of California, Davis“This volume marks a breakthrough in the historical study of criminality, social deviance, punishment, and legal systems in Latin America. The contributions are empirically deep, interestingly theorized, and brought together by a very sophisticated introductory essay. The essays immerse us in such vital themes as modernization and the law, the medicalization of crime and deviance, and the modes by which ordinary people faced the state and its institutions—in the broad issue of legal culture, in other words.”—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego"A very useful introduction. . . . This volume offers many insights into comparative histories with other formative legal orders. . .. A real milestone for historians wanting to take legal institutions seriously without portraying them in some of the rigid ways they once were." -- Jeremy Adelman * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Fascinating. . . . Valuable for Latin Americanists precisely because the editors and authors succeed in making connections across time and space, and it is an important resource for nonspecialists looking for comparative examples and new perspectives to bring to their studies." -- Joan Bristol * Journal of Social History *"This volume's primary contribution is . . . a broadly comparative perspective on the ascendance of 'modernizing' liberal ideologies. Perhaps most importantly, these essays expose the disunity and incompleteness of Latin America's liberal project, as well as the marked divergence between the political liberalism of consolidating Latin American and the market liberalism of the United States and Britain." -- Jocelyn Olcott * EIAL *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface / Gilbert M. Joseph Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820 / Charles F. Walker Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888 / Arlene J. Díaz Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Juan Manuel R. Palacio Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930–1950 / Luis A. González Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime The Criminalizaton of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867–1930 / Christina Rivera-Garza Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922 / Dain Borges Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century / Kristin Ruggiero Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City / Pablo Piccato Part III / Contested Meanings of Punishment The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890–1930: The Prisoners’ Agena for Prison Reform / Carlos Aguirre Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890–1940 / Donna J. Guy Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930–1950) / Lila M. Caimari Afterword: Law and Society in Comparative Perspective / Douglas Hay Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico.Trade Review“City of Suspects offers a perceptive and original analysis of crime and punishment in early twentieth-century Mexico City. Spanning the authoritarian twilight of the Porfiriato, the violent catharsis of the Revolution,and the flawed social reformism of the 1920s, it roams the streets and households, barrios and penitentiaries of the city,exploring changing state policy and social mores, while illuminating concerns—crime, policing, moral panics—which are as relevant today as they were a century ago.”—Alan Knight, Oxford University“An important, accessible book on a difficult and significant subject. City of Suspects will be warmly appreciated by historians of modern Mexico and historically-minded sociologists and political scientists who sympathize with Piccato’s ambition to keep crime and the state within the same field of inquiry.”— William B. Taylor, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. The Context 13 1. The Modern City 17 2. The Policed City 34 3. The Construction of Mexican Criminology 50 II. The Practices 73 4. Honor and Violent Crime 77 5. Violence Against Women 103 6. Money, Crime, and Social Reactions to Larceny 132 III. The Consequences 161 7. The Invention of Rateros 163 8. Penal Experience in Mexico City 189 Conclusions: Crime Contested 211 Appendix: Statistics of Crime 221 Notes 237 Bibliography 319 Index 349

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes how the U.S. victims rights movement has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to the direct victims of violent crime.Trade Review“Second Wounds is a nuanced study of how victims’ rights have become important factors not only in criminal justice cases but also in how crime is covered by journalists and understood as a social phenomenon. In this complex analysis of the rise of the victims’ rights movement, Carrie A. Rentschler explicates the politics of victimization while remaining sympathetic to activists. Based on original interpretations of legal discourse, cultural studies, feminist theory, and media studies, Second Wounds is interdisciplinary scholarship at its best.”—Marita Sturken, author of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero“Second Wounds is a terrific book, an important, timely work of cultural history grounded in thorough research and inventive analysis. Carrie A. Rentschler offers a deft account of the origin of victims’ rights advocacy and its influence on thinking about violence across the political, psychological, and media professions, and through them, across American public life.”—Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism“Second Wounds is an elegant, moving cross-disciplinary investigation into representational debates about victims’ rights…. [A] difficult yet compelling read.” -- Nina Seja * Media International Australia *“[Rentschler’s] intervention into and revaluation of the politics of victimization is a welcome addition to discussions of victimization that find in the rhetoric of victimization (and the speaking position of victim) only disempowerment, resentment, or the flowering of a repressively punitive political project. . . . It will be of interest to a variety of scholars, including those interested in the cross-disciplinary study of trauma and its representation and those in the fields of American studies, media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and criminology.” -- Jennifer Peterson * International Journal of Communication *“For journalism, media, and communication faculty, Second Wounds provides a solid resource for better explaining and examining what victims experience when interacting with media following a crime or tragedy. . . . Second Wounds offers students and scholars alike much to consider with regard to victims of crime in America today.” -- Wendy Townley * Journalism & Mass Communication Educator *“Cultural Studies at its best, Second Wounds makes a significant intervention into contemporary US political culture— not by adopting an ideological filter for cultural analysis, but by offering a nuanced history and critical analysis of the victims’ rights movement in all of its complexity.” -- Rachel Hall * Cultural Studies *“Carrie A. Rentschler’s Second Wounds is a well-written and well-documented work of scholarship that draws on a range of novel data sources to analyze the discursive ways in which victims’ rights groups of various stripes engage in political work.” -- David A. Green * Law & Society Review *“[A] thoughtful, provocative, and critical analysis of the victims’ rights movement and victim advocacy. . . . The author draws on multiple disciplines in framing her argument and her analysis is appropriate for the goal of the project. I highly recommend the book.” -- Steven Chermak * Theoretical Criminology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Victims' Rights Movement and the Second Wound 1 Part One. The Life and Times of Victims' Rights 1. Law and Order: The Dominant Ideology of Victims' Rights 33 2. An Activist History of Victims' Rights 55 Part Two. Opening and Closing the Second Wound: Representing Victims 3. Meet the Press: Representing Victims' Rights 83 4. Undisclosed Sources: Victims' Rights and Journalism Training 113 5. Profiles of Life: News Memorials to the Dead 137 6. Faces of Murder 177 Conclusion. Giving Face to the Family as Victim 211 Notes 223 Bibliography 233 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThis ethnohistory examines how the Guatemalan gangs that emerged from the country's strong populist movement in the 1980s had become perpetrators of nihilist violence by the early 2000s.Trade Review"Adios Niño is a first-class piece of social interpretation that plunges us deep into the darkness of the underworld. The result of incredible ethnographic fieldwork developed in dangerous conditions, it offers many methodological lessons for researchers."—Manolo E. Vela Castañeda, author of Los pelotones de la muerte: La construcción de los perpetradores del genocidio guatemalteco"A must-read account of how the gangs of Guatemala were shaped by war and politics. Chilling and important."—John M. Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture"I was blown away by this book, by its originality, textured detail, and penetrating, multilayered analysis of the history of Guatemalan gangs. The most holistic work that I have read on so-called 'apolitical' gang violence in Latin America, it is at once deeply empathetic, even to people who have committed vicious acts, and sharply argumentative. Adiós Niño will have a big impact on Latin American studies, urban studies, and violence and memory studies across the fields of history, anthropology, and sociology."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation"[An] extraordinary history of the gangs of Guatemala City.... Above all the ethnographic work of an oral historian, Adiós Niño subtly weaves into its analytical fabric an eclectic array of theoretical voices, from Enrique Dussell to Michel Foucault." -- Jeffery Webber * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[T]his is the book on gangs we need to read.” -- Naomi Glassman * NACLA Report on the Americas *“Deborah Levenson’s Adiós Niño is to date the most historically nuanced work on Guatemalan gangs…. Levenson’s work earns a place on the essential reading list not only of scholars interested in gangs and Central America, but of all those interested in human rights and the effects of their systematic suppression in impoverished societies.” -- J. T. Way * Human Rights Review *“This book is a must read, not only for those who are interested in Guatemala…. I don’t know that I have seen a better explanation of what happens when revolutions fail, or a better explanation for why Guatemala’s contemporary youth gangs ought to be seen, as Levenson puts it, as 'orphans of the world' (98).” -- Karen Dubinsky * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *“The book is beautifully written… superb.” -- Susanne Jonas * American Historical Review *"Adiós Niño is simultaneously painful and important.... This riveting account is a particularly good book to teach, especially at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level: it grapples with many issues, and although it doesn’t necessarily resolve them, it unmasks and demonstrates the rigors and some of the key components of the intellectual quest." -- Jennifer L. Burrell * American Anthropologist *[A] tremendous achievement. Any scholar of Latin America, urban studies, youth, crime, postwar politics, or memory will find rich theoretical and methodological interventions here. Levenson packs much insight into this slim, elegant volume, offering a surgical exegesis of the relationships between history, violence, and trauma.” -- Kristen Weld * The Historian *“[T]his is a well-written and accessible work that incorporates a much-needed historical perspective to the study of street gangs in Central America. The volume will appeal to researchers of different disciplines – notably history, anthropology and the political sciences – who specialise in gangs, security, the quality of democracy and Central America.” -- Sonja Wolf * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Deborah Levenson presents a refreshing depiction of these supposedly transnational gangs, essentially turning this characterization on its head. A trained historian with broad and deep knowledge of Guatemala, Levenson assembles a wide array of data and information she has accumulated over decades of work in Guatemala into a convincing argument. The result is a complex, rich portrayal of gangs in Guatemala...." -- Cecilia Menjivar * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Rise and Fall of Tomorrow 1 1. Death and Politics, 1950s–2000s 21 2. 1980s: The Gangs to Live For 53 3. 1990s and Beyond: The Gangs to Die For 77 4. Democracy and Lock-Up 105 5. Open Ending 129 Notes 145 Bibliography 161 Index 177

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