Avi Brisman Research Articles

Marc Schuilenburg (2021) Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics. Vivien D. Glass, trans. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

Avi Brisman reviews Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics by Marc Schuilenburg (translated by Vivian D Glass)

Avi Brisman: Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure

Avi Brisman: Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure

Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Second Edition

Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Second Edition

Avi Brisman, Eamonn Carrabine and Nigel South (eds): The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts

Edited criminology ‘companions’, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, handbooks and textbooks, produced by Routledge are not uncommon, and this means that there is serious competition in the same marketplace to entice students or libraries to buy them. To succeed in that competitive space, the product needs to be able to set itself apart—if it can—from the others that are available and vying for that valuable space on those library shelves (or on an instructor’s syllabus). Timing makes a difference: newer texts can usurp older titles (hence, the common 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions of popular titles) by dint of simply being more up to date. The form of the text may also impact sales. Criminology textbooks can be weighty volumes and we have recently seen attempts in the market for more focussed, less comprehensive textbooks looking to appeal to the student that will want to carry them around like a normal monograph. While quality through sufficient critical and depth insight is obviously important, it is in the nature of all textbooks of this ilk to be compromised, to some degree, in this regard. Any text that seeks to encapsulate, summarise and provide meaningful and reasonably critical insight into a wide range of topic areas will be constrained by available word length for each entry. Even the weightiest of tomes suffer this challenge.

Book review: David Rodríguez Goyes, Hanneke Mol, Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds), Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land (Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology)

Book review: David Rodríguez Goyes, Hanneke Mol, Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds), Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land (Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology)

David Rodríguez Goyes, Hanneke Mol, Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land

David Rodríguez Goyes, Hanneke Mol, Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land

Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues Avi Brisman, Nigel South, and Rob White (Editors) Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, UK, 2015

Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues Avi Brisman, Nigel South, and Rob White (Editors) Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, UK, 2015

Avi Brisman. Review of "Blindfolding the Muse: The Plight of Painting in the Age of Conceptual Art" by Ross Neher and Michael Takiff.

Avi Brisman. Review of "Blindfolding the Muse: The Plight of Painting in the Age of Conceptual Art" by Ross Neher and Michael Takiff.