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Author:  Russ Immarigeon.


Source: Volume 31, Number 01, Fall 2021 , pp.9-11(3)




Journal of Community Justice (formerly Journal of Community Corrections)

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Abstract: 

Our regular review of the books and research includes reviews of “He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories” by Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather (published by Agate Midway ); “Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison” by Alison Pedlar, Susan Arai, Felice Yuen, and Darla Fortune (published by Routledge); “A Better Justice? Community Programs for Criminalized Women” by Amanda Nelund (University of British Columbia Press); “We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books); “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein (One World); and “Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City” by Josephine Ensign (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Keywords: Women Who Commit Murder; Women and Reentry; Women’s Programming; Confronting History; Addressing Homelessness

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.

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