Book reviews

The Carceral Geography Working Group aims to produce reviews of new volumes in, and of relevance to, our field.

Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory
‪James Gacek

Reviewed by Sophie Lachapelle, PhD Student, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Read review

Donne in carcere: Ricerche e progetti per Rebibbia [Women in prison: Research and projects for Rebibbia]
‪Francesca Giofrè and Pisana Posocco

Reviewed by Roberto Catello, Liverpool Hope University, UK. Read review

Bordered Lives: Immigration Detention Archive
Mary Bosworth, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Christoph Balzar

Reviewed by Samantha O’Donnell, PhD Candidate in Criminology, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Read review

Carceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang

Reviewed by Emma K. Russell, Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Australia. Read review

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals
Karen M. Morin

Reviewed by James Gacek, PhD Candidate at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, UK. Read review

Outside Time: A personal history of prison farming and gardening
Hannah Wright

Reviewed by Will McKeithen, Doctoral Student and Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Washington, United States. Read review.

Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues
Rich Furman, Douglas Epps and Greg Lamphear

Reviewed by Sarah M. Hughes, Research Postgraduate at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK. Read review

Citizen Convicts: Prisoners, Politics and the Vote
Cormac Behan

Reviewed by ACE Collective, a steering committee for the University of Oregon Prison Education Committee’s educational efforts within the prison, and its participants in the national Inside-Out Prison Education Exchange Program, which brings together incarcerated and campus-based students for college classes within penal settings. Read review

A Prison Without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism
Sarah Badcock

Reviewed by Carrie Crockett, Postgraduate Researcher at the School of History, University of Leicester, UK. Read review

Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology
Dominique Moran and Anna Schliehe

Reviewed by Cheryl McGeachan, Lecturer in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. Read review

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