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Abstract: 

In this issue our book review editor has compiled an interesting reading list of six books on topics of relevance to practitioners. One review describes a chronicle, in photographs and text, of young men’s lives in the Bronx. A second considers the origins of U.S. justice in an 18th century philosophical treatise published in Italy. Two additional reviews deal with recently published handbooks on social work practice with vulnerable and resilient populations and gender, sex, and crime. Another two deal with racism in American prisons, and race, gender, and sentencing in Canada. Reviewed books include: “Bronx Boys,” photographs by Stephen Shames, text by Martin Drones and José “Poncho” Muñoz (The University of Texas Press); “The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution,” by John D. Bessler (Carolina Academic Press); “Handbook of Social Work Practice With Vulnerable and Resilient Populations (Third Edition),” edited by Alex Gitterman (Columbia University Press); “The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime,” edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy (Oxford University Press); “Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System,Vol. 1: Historical and Contemporary Issues” and “Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System,Vol. 2: Public Policy and the U.S. Prison System” edited by Scott Wm. Bowman (Praeger); and “To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada,” by Carmela Murdocca (University of British Columbia Press).

Keywords: Origins of American Justice; Social Work and Criminal Justice; Gender, Sex, and Crime; Race, Ethnicity, and Justice; Sentencing

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.