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Abstract: 

Reviews four important new resources: The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections, edited by Joan Petersilia and Kevin B. Reitz (Oxford University Press, 2012); Encyclopedia of Community Corrections, edited by Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa (Sage Publications, 2012); So Rich, So Poor: Why It Is So Hard to End Poverty in America by Peter Edelman (The New Press, 2012); Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress, by Becky Pettit (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012).

Keywords: Corrections and sentencing; community corrections; poverty; racial disparities

Affiliations:  1: Book Review Editor.