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Our regular summary of important books and literature includes reviews of “From Courtroom to Clinic: Legal Cases That Changed Mental Health Treatment” edited by Peter Ash, published by Cambridge University Press; “Killing with Prejudice: Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment” by R.J. Maratea, published by New York University Press; “Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers” by Jon B. Gould and Maya Pagni Barak, published by New York University Press; “Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina” by Seth Kotch, published by University of North Carolina Press; “The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology” edited by David P. Farrington, Lila Kazemian, and Alex R. Piquero, published by Oxford University Press; “Life Imprisonment and Human Rights” edited by Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton, published by Hart Publishing; and “Human Rights and Incarceration: Critical Explorations” edited by Elizabeth Stanley, published by Palgrave.

Keywords: Mental Health; Capital Punishment; Lynching; Corrections and Human Rights; Criminal Justice Resources

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