Crime and the Punished: An essential introduction to how sociologists think about and research crime and punishment.

Attention IACFP members: I came across this forthcoming title from W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. and The Society Pages, edited by former Contexts editors Douglas Hartmann (Editor, University of Minnesota), and Christopher Uggen (Editor, University of Minnesota). I picked up a copy at the recent ASA meeting, and I think this will be of real interest to many of you.

From the Norton Website:

(http://books.wwnorton.com/books/index.aspx)

"The second volume in this series tackles crime and punishment. As in the first volume, the chapters are organized into three main sections. “Core Contributions” exemplifies how sociologists and other social scientists think about otherwise familiar phenomena like crime, incarceration, and suicide. Chapters in the “Cultural Contexts” section engage crime in cultural realms—from politics to families to international crime and justice—that are often ignored or taken for granted among laypeople or in other social science disciplines. Finally, the “Critical Takes” chapters provide sociological commentary, perspective, and reflections on crime and its control."

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Changing Lenses: We Are the 1 in 100, by Christopher Uggen

Part 1: Core Contributions
    1. Six Social Sources of the U.S. Crime Drop, by Christopher Uggen and Suzy McElrath
    2. Climate Change and Crime with Robert Agnew, by Sarah Shannon
    3. Social Fact: The Great Depressions? by Deborah Carr and Julie A. Phillips
    4. Visualizing Punishment, by Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen

Part 2: Cultural Contexts
    5. Why Punishment Is Purple, by Joshua Page
    6. The Color Purple, by Jonathan Simon
    7. Repercussions of Incarceration on Close Relationships, by Megan Comfort
    8. International Criminal Justice, with Susanne Karstedt, Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, and Kathryn Sikkink, by Shannon Golden and Hollie Nyseth Brehm
    9. The Crime of Genocide, by Hollie Nyseth Brehm

Part 3: Critical Takes 
    10. Correcting American Corrections, with Francis Cullen, David Garland, David Jacobs, and Jeremy Travis, by Sarah Lageson
    11. A Social Welfare Critique of Contemporary Crime Control, by Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner
    12. Juvenile Lifers, Learning to Lead, by Michelle Inderbitzin, Trevor Walraven, and Joshua Cain
    13. Discovering Desistance, with Shadd Maruna and Fergus McNeill, by Sarah Shannon and Sarah Lageson