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The Reviews Editors are keen to receive books for review on a wide variety of subjects, from the criminal justice system, crime reduction, delinquency, hate crimes and deviant social behaviour. Book reviews will be published on this page along with a link to the relevant publisher from which the book can be purchased.
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BOOK REVIEWS
An Introduction to Criminological Theory, 3rd Edition
By by Roger Hopkins Burke, Nottingham Trent University)
Willan Publishing, 2009
Reviewed by Neil Chakraborti of University of Leicester.
When the first edition of An Introduction to Criminology Theory was published in 2001, readers were offered a fresh way of thinking about criminological theory; one which steered clear from the chronological framework typically adopted in most theory textbooks, and which instead used models of criminal behaviour to illustrate commonalities and differences between various theories and their implications for crime causation and prevention. This innovative approach was extremely well-received by students and academics alike clamouring for something less impenetrable than the standard fare. The third edition provides a welcome revision to its two predecessors whilst staying true to its original approach and structure.
An Introduction to Criminological Theory, 3rd Edition, can be purchased from Willan Publishing
Crime Prevention
By by Nick Tilley, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
Willan Publishing, 2009
Reviewed by Craig Paterson of Sheffield Hallam University.
Nick Tilley’s book, ‘Crime Prevention’, takes on the potentially dry task of introducing relative newcomers to the subject of crime prevention as well as the multitude of ways in which crime reduction strategies ‘work’. In the introduction to the book the author makes it clear that he is not concerned with discussing the sociological, political and economic context that led to the rise of crime prevention from the 1970s. Instead, Tilley restricts the focus to strategic and tactical approaches used in the prevention of crime.
Crime Prevention can be purchased from Willan Publishing
Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution
By Edited by Vanessa E. Munro, University of Nottingham, UK and Marina della Giusta, University of Reading, UK.
Ashgate, 2008
Reviewed by Paul Hamilton, Nottingham Trent University.
Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection broadens engagement beyond the routine analysis of the locus of violence in prostitution and the validity of the prostitute's consent. A focus on the supply/demand dynamic brings into play a range of other societal, economic and psychological factors such as the social construction of sexuality, the viability of alternative choices for prostitutes and clients, and the impact of regulatory regimes on the provision of sexual services.
Demanding Sex can be purchased from Ashgate
Crime Online
By Yvonne Jewkes
Willan Publishing, 2006
Reviewed by Mike Sutton, Nottingham Trent University.
Crime Online is an edited collection of eleven chapters about Internet facilitated crime – otherwise known as cybercrime, online crime, internet crime, digital crime, virtual crime or by the reviewer's own preferred label: NetCrime.
Crime Online can be purchased from Willan Publishing
Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison
By Jeffrey Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards
Alpha Books, Inc., 2009
Reviewed by Matthew Carbery, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri) USA.
At present, 1 in 32 adults in the United States is under some form of correctional supervision. Of the 2.3 million adults currently held in jails and prisons, over 600,000 return to their communities each year. These statistics have pushed prisoner reentry to the forefront of national consciousness among U.S. citizens.
Beyond Bars can be purchased from Amazon
Cultural Criminology
By Ferrell, J., Hayward, K. and Young, J.
Sage, 2008
Reviewed by Matt Long, Nottingham Trent University.
Compared to a decade or so ago, ‘cultural criminology’ is now being taught and researched widely across higher education criminology departments in the UK. Ferrell, Hayward and Young’s book is a huge success in meeting the need for a concise but comprehensive textbook in this exciting new area of criminology. In particular, those who enjoyed the edited volume which constituted Ferrell et al’s (2004) Cultural Criminology Unleashed will almost certainly approve of this book.
Cultural Criminology can be purchased from Sage
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism
By Steve Hall, Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum
Willan Publishing, 2008
Reviewed by Roger Hopkins Burke, Principal Lecturer and Criminology Subject Leader in the Division of Criminology Public Health and Policy Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
At the time of writing – December 2008 – the world is undergoing an ongoing major economic ‘correction’ which could well turn into a slump the like of which we have not seen since at least the 1930s. This is all seems to be the outcome of a ‘credit crunch’ whereupon short-term boom conditions have been artificially sustained throughout the world economies – but in particular, the UK and the USA - for at least the past ten years by banks loaning large sums of money that does not really exist to people with a dubious ability to repay.
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture can be purchased from Willan Publishing
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
By Ian Brady
Feral House, 2001
Reviewed by Anthony Metvier, Associate of The European Graduate School, Switzerland.
Ian Brady, who along with his girlfriend Myra Hindley, killed four youths between 1963 and 1964, explains all in The Gates of Janus, a dense and lengthy tome written from a cell in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. Brady’s mix of confession and philosophy comprises a series of pedagogical rationalizations meant to convince the public, not only that they help create murderers by participating in a morally bankrupt capitalist system, but that they should embrace the so-called “serial killer” in the same way they inadvertently support state-sanctioned killers such as police officers, snipers, and soldiers.
The Gates of Janus can be purchased from Feral House
One Child at a Time: Inside the fight to rescue children from online predators
By Julian Sher
Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2007
Reviewed by Ed Pollock, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
This is an enthralling book. It enhances significantly our knowledge and understanding of online child abuse, the trans-national investigative methods employed to reduce it and the difficulties involved in tackling it. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the dynamics of internet-facilitated sex offending and is a good compliment to any further text contending with issues concerning the treatment, management and rehabilitation of sex offenders in custody and the community.
One Child at a Time can be purchased from Vision Paperbacks
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