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Our regular review of the books and research includes reviews of “A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom” by by Brittany K. Barnett (published by Crown); “The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War” by Michael S. Sherry (published by University of North Carolina Press); “What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System” edited by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson (The New Press); “Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms”by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law (The New Press); “‘Prisons Make Us Safer’” and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration” by Victoria Law (Beacon Press); and “Developmental Criminology and the Crime Decline: A Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Careers of Two New South Wales Birth Cohorts” by Jason Payne and Alex R. Piquero (Cambridge University Press).

Keywords: Militarization and Incarceration; Prison Reform

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