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Abstract: 

Our regular review of the current literature includes reviews of “Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration”by Reuben Jonathan Miller, published by Little, Brown and Company; “Doing Justice, Preventing Crime” by by Michael Tonry, published by Oxford University Press; “The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration” by Franklin E. Zimring, published by Oxford University Press; “The Defender: The Battle to Defend the Rights of the Accused in Philadelphia” by Edward W. Madeira, Jr., and Michael D. Schaeffer, published by Temple University Press; “Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria” translated, with commentary by Peter Garnsey, published by Princeton University Press; “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty” by Maurice Chammah, published by Crown.

Keywords: Reentry; Reducing Incarceration; Public Defenders; Capital Punishment

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.