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Our regular review of the books and research includes reviews of “Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later” by Howard Zehr and Barb Toews, published by The New Press; “Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities” edited by Edward C. Valandra and Wanbli Wapȟáha Hokšíla, published by Living Justice Press; “For the People: A Story of Justice and Power” by Larry Krasner, published by One World; “Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness” by Laura Coates, published by Simon & Schuster; “Normalizing Extreme Punishment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California” by Marion Vannier, published by Oxford University Press; “Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Incarceration” by Jessica T. Simes, published by University of California Press; “On Crime, Society, and Responsibility in the Work of Nicola Lacey” edited by Iyiola Solanke, published by Oxford University Press; “Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime, and Punishment: Space, Time, and Politics” edited by Nicola Lacey, David Soskice, Leonidas K. Cheliotis, and Sappho Xenakis, published by Oxford University Press; “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison” by Chris Hedges, published by Simon & Schuster; “Caged” by New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative, Introduction by Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin, published by Haymarket Books; “Almost Innocent: From Searching to Saved in America’s Criminal Justice System” by Shanti Brien, published by Amplify Publishing.

Keywords: Restorative Justice; Color and Justice; Prosecution Reform; Geography and Punishment; Appellate Justice

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.