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Our regular review of the books and research includes reviews of “The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities” by Judge Victoria Pratt, published by Seal Press; “Day Fines in Europe: Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems” edited by Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure, published by Cambridge University Press; “Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration” by James Kilgore, published by The New Press; “Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory” by James Gacek, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press; “Junk Science and the Criminal Justice System” by M. Chris Fabricant, published by Akashic Books; “The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice” edited by Sandra M. Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty, and Luca Berardi, published by Oxford University Press; “Collision Course: Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America” by Kathleen Auerhahn, published by Rutgers University Press; “Confessions of a Hayseed DA” by Robert R. Meehan, published by Excelsior Editions; “Rethinking Justice: Inside America’s Movement for Prosecution Reform” by Vincenzo Guido, published by New Degree Press; “Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice” edited by Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony C. Thompson, published by New York University Press.

Keywords: Procedural Justice; Income-Based Sanctions; Electronic Monitoring; Evidence and Science; Ethnographic Studies; Criminal and Economic Justice; Prosecutors

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.