Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

Author: Shannon Malone Gonzalez Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025. 302 pages. Reviewer: Brianne M. Posey | Spring 2025 Police violence and police brutality are a public health issue. Studies show that Black individuals are more likely to be killed by police than white individuals and are more likely to experience injury, even from less-than-lethal force.

Author: Rachel Elise Barkow Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2025. 320 pages. Reviewer: Chad Flanders | Spring 2025 This is an excellent book. In more or less chronological fashion, Rachel Barkow goes through six major Supreme Court decisions on criminal law and procedure and blames them for (alternatively) encouraging, fostering, or at the very least not getting in the way of the rise of mass incarceration in America. There is something in this book for everybody.

Author: Amy Adamczyk Publisher: Oxford Academic Press, 2025. 328 pages. Reviewer: Brittany Hayes | Spring 2025 In Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion, sociologist Amy Adamczyk delivers a timely and deeply analytical exploration of one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary society: abortion.

Authors: Erik S. Maloney, and Kevin A. Wright Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 210 pages. Reviewer: Justin McDevitt | Spring 2025 From its searing and vulnerable prologue, Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison (2025) by Erik S. Maloney and Kevin A. Wright promises to be a unique and powerful voice in the landscape of criminology, and it more than delivers.

Author: Anton Moiseienko Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 295 pages. Reviewer: Frederick T. Martens | Spring 2025 My decades of investigating organized crime and public corruption often uncovered some form of money laundering, which proved consequential in achieving a conviction or judgment.[1] “Follow the money,” a dictum central to these types of investigations, became the clarion call among our cadre of detectives and forensic accountants.

Author: Christopher Slobogin Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 332 pages. Reviewer: Guha Krishnamurthi | Spring 2025 In Rehabilitating Criminal Justice, Professor Christopher Slobogin embraces a comprehensive approach to identifying and rectifying the problems with the American criminal justice system. The book has twelve chapters addressing a variety of problems with the criminal justice system at the investigatory, adjudicatory, and post-conviction stages.

Author: Adam J. Kolber Publisher: Oxford Academic Press, 2024. 264 pages.

Author: Ko-Lin Chin Publisher: Temple University Press, 2025. 304 pages. Reviewer: Dilara Bural | Spring 2025 Product counterfeiting now dominates the world of illicit trade. The European Union Intellectual Property Office estimated that counterfeit and pirated goods reached $464 billion in 2019, representing 2.5 percent of world trade. By the late 2010s, many sources reported that counterfeiting had overtaken drug trafficking, human smuggling, and human trafficking.

Author: Samantha J. Simon Publisher: NYU Press, 2024. 304 pages. Reviewer: Ryan Brown | Spring 2025 Samantha J. Simon’s Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of police recruitment and training in the southern United States.

Editors: Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular, Barbara G. Brents, Susie Balderston, and Gillian Abel Publisher: Springer Nature, 2025. 270 pages. Reviewer: Michelle Annett | Spring 2025 Voicing Consent: Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts (2025) emerges from a four-year international collaborative project led by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, academics, and practitioners.