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Our regular review of the books and research includes reviews of “Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets, and Offenders” edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko, published by New York University Press; “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice” by Tony Messenger, published by St. Martin’s Press; “The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution” edited by Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine, and Russell M. Gold, published by Oxford University Press; “Punishment without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal” by Carissa Byrne Hessick, published by Abrams Press; “Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice” by Mikaela Rabinowitz, published by Routledge; “Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened” by Jessica S. Henry, published by University of California Press; “Modern Control Theory and the Limits of Criminal Justice” by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, published by Oxford University Press; “Carceral Con: The Desperate Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform” by Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, published by University of California Press.

Keywords: Latinas and Criminal Justice; Costs and Fines; Prosecutors and Prosecution; Plea Bargaining; No-Crime Wrongful Conviction; Control Theory; Viability of Criminal Justice Reform

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.