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Our regular summary of literature includes reviews of seven new books “Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957” edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister, with essays by Nicole F. Fleetwood and Bryan Stevenson, published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation; “Racism in America: A Reader” edited by Annette Gordon-Reed, published by Harvard University Press; “American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future” by Frank Stricker, published by University of Illinois Press; “Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America” by Sara Mayeux, published by University of North Carolina Press; “Gideon’s Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice” by Jonathan Rapping, published by Beacon Press; “When Should Law Forgive?” by Martha Minow, published by W.W. Norton & Co.; “Beyond Recidivism: New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration” edited by Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, and Johnna Christian, published by New York University Press.

Keywords: Photographing Crime; Racism; Unemployment; Public Defenders; Punishment; Reentry and Reintegration

Affiliations:  1: Book Review Editor.