Contenders for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2013

Contenders for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2013 (sponsored by Routledge Publishing)

We are near finishing the judging of the BSC Book Prize for 2013.  But all are worthy of consideration so here’s the shortlist:

Deborah Drake Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security Palgrave

Simon Harding’s Unleashed The phenomena of status dogs and weapon dogs The Policy Press

Arlie Loughnan Manifest Madness Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law OUP

Demetra M. Pappas The Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Debate Greenwood Press

Coretta Phillips The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners OUP

Gilly Sharpe Offending Girls: Young Women and Youth Justice Routledge 

Helen Wells The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society Ashgate

Daniel Briggs Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South

Routledge

The prize will be awarded at the BSC Conference in Wolverhampton 2-4 July 2013.

As you can see they largely say what they are in the title.