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The legitimated response to "crime" - a term that sometimes, but not always, includes harm and violence - is one of punishment, particularly punishment delivered by the criminal "justice" system. The criminal "justice" system has essentially cornered the market on questions (and answers) of justice - justice is its domain. [Extracted from the article]

The article, titled "Underscoring the importance of fieldwork when drafting notes from the field," discusses the relationship between victim support and restorative justice. The author, Antony Pemberton, argues that restorative justice schemes are more prevalent in countries with weak victim support systems. However, the article lacks empirical grounding and does not provide substantive details about victim support organizations or restorative justice practices in Europe. The author suggests that further research is needed to understand the social processes and actions of those involved in victim support and restorative justice. [Extracted from the article]

In chapter 6, Miller intensifies the portrait of individuals' lives after an incarceration experience, lives that are invisible to all but those who have been incarcerated and the family members who surround them. Miller tells the complex and conflicted story of the criminal justice system through the lens of three complex, conflicted, and interconnected narratives. The reader learns of the personal experiences of Miller's research participants and of Miller's own experience. [Extracted from the article]

The War on Sex Edited by Halperin, D.M. Hoppe, T. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017 David Halperin and Trevor Hoppe bring together 17 essays that broaden the discussion of sexual politics from the lens of sexual health to that of social justice and civil rights. This discriminatory comment, made by a legal professional, reveals a lack of understanding of HIV transmission and offers a glimpse of the cultural context of HIV/AIDS in California as things stand. In 1988, the Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic published a report on HIV transmission that encouraged state governments to use criminal law in the face of this epidemic ([6]). [Extracted from the article]

In recent years, the issue of consent in relation to sexual offences on the island of Ireland has been brought to the foreground of international debate. I wanted to do something to prove how unnecessary these victim-blaming-type questions are'.[22] As such, the aim of both Maxwell's and Cambareri's exhibitions are closely aligned- to challenge rape myths surrounding clothing and consent. Across Ireland, protests erupted at this suggestion, but the focus of this review has been to explore the I Not Consent i exhibition and how this exhibition creatively challenges prejudicial attitudes towards clothing as consent. [Extracted from the article]

In Chapter 2, Marion shows readers the importance of studying drug use by providing data on the scope of substance use and addiction in the United States. The history of marijuana seems to be somewhat of a repeat of a section of Chapter 3 though, where Marion mentions the history and laws of some drugs including marijuana. Clearly, these data suggest that opioids are a major concern in American culture and its criminal justice system, and any contemporary book on drug policy in the American Criminal Justice System that does not include a discussion of this epidemic is incomplete. To her credit Marion does introduce methadone and naltrexone at a rudimentary level, but she does not include buprenorphine in her discussion of medication treatment. [Extracted from the article]

In I Gregg v. Georgia i ([9]), I Jurek v. Texas i ([12]), and I Proffitt v. Florida i ([17]) collectively known as the Gregg decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty laws in Georgia, Florida, and Texas which had been amended met constitutional requirements, thus bringing back capital punishment ([5]; [15]). Germany and France might have succeeded in abolishing the death penalty despite strong public approval of capital punishment, as the authors pointed out, but that is just not the American way of doing things. Despite the continued presence of the capital punishment laws in some states, the use of the death penalty is on a gradual decline in the U.S. criminal justice system. [Extracted from the article]

Ingram highlights both the critical role of sheriffs in choosing how to apply the law and how corruption fostered and encouraged crime by White southerners. All of the essays offer well-researched, complex methodological and topical interventions that highlight the racialized implications of Jim Crow governance. Pippa Holloway's essay on the rejection of witnesses with criminal records in a context of racialized policing and punishment highlights both southern exceptionalism after other regions abandoned the policy decades earlier and how racism animates every "race neutral" policy (109). [Extracted from the article]

Book Review: Aaron Pycroft and Dennis Gough (eds), Multi-agency Working in Criminal Justice. Chapter 1 is entitled "Multi-agency working and the governance of crime control" and aims at connecting the various multi-agency arrangements in the criminal justice field with "political and societal developments particularly in relation to the nature of contemporary government and the fluid relationships between the state and law and order" (p. 5). Chapter 2, under the title "From a trained incapacity to professional resistance in the criminal justice", constitutes a defense of reflective/critical practice by practitioners in the various agencies and arrangements in the criminal justice field, much needed in the aftermath of the austerity policies. [Extracted from the article]

McKay, Carolyn, The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison Video Links, Court "Appearance" and the Justice Matrix, Routledge: London, 2018; 242 pp.: 9781138085107, 140.00 (hbk) Technology has wrought transformations throughout the criminal justice process, and McKay's focus is on audio-visual links (AVL) connecting prisoners to courtrooms. McKay is clear to situate AVL as a prison technology, and not necessarily a technology of justice. [Extracted from the article]