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The politics of crime control

From the Scholar and Feminist Online, a special issue on children of incarcerated parents. From Law and Society Review, a review of Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life by Jonathan M. Wender; a review of Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse by Todd Clear; and a review of The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control by Lisa L. Miller. After a three-decade-long social experiment in incarceration, what do we have to show for it? A review of Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America by Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert. Is this the end of the War on Crime? The era of "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" seems, slowly, to be drawing to a close. From International Socialism, a review of Criminal Records: A Database for the Criminal Justice System and Beyond by Terry Thomas; and a review of Marxism and Criminological Theory: A Critique and a Toolkit by Mark Cowling. More on Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson. Women in the American gulag: A review of Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States. The punishment of anti-social behaviour seems necessary for a stable society, but how should it be policed, and how severe should it be? Game theory offers some answers. The mystery of falling crime rates: Despite widespread economic hardship, the nation’s crime rate has continued to fall.