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Our regular review of important books includes “Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party” by Stephen Shames and Erika Huggins, published by ACC Art Books; “In the Time of Panthers: Early Photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales” by Jeffrey Henson Scales, Deborah Willis, and Waldo Martin, published by SPQR Editions; “On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care” by Victor Ray, published by Random House; “What’s Prison For? Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration” by Bill Keller, published by Columbia Global Reports; “Ending Mass Incarceration: Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform” by Katherine Beckett, published by Oxford University Press; “The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional Reform” by Helen Clarke Molanphy, published by Routledge; “Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison” by Daniel S. Medved, published by Basic Books; “Justice Outsourced: The Therapeutic Jurisprudence Implications of Judicial Decision-Making by Nonjudicial Officers” edited by Michael L. Perlin and Kelly Frailing, published by Temple University Press.

Keywords: Community Justice; Moral Panic; American Penal Crisis; Correctional Trends; Innocence; Therapeutic Justice

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.