Book review: John M Eason, Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
| Date | 01 November 2019 |
| Published date | 01 November 2019 |
| Author | Anne Bonds |
| DOI | 10.1177/1362480618813761 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
Theoretical Criminology 23(4)
As an invitation to digital criminology, Powell et al.’s book is a compelling one.
Digital Criminology offers a valuable framework and a smorgasbord of concepts for
examining digital society through a critical technosocial lens—one that is sure to inspire
future research in the field. It will particularly appeal to critical and cultural criminolo-
gists interested in the digital, but also has much to offer technology-concerned crimi-
nologists who do not identify with these two perspectives.
References
Brown S (2006) The criminology of hybrids: Rethinking crime and law in technosocial networks.
Theoretical Criminology 10(2): 223–244.
Dawkins R (1976) The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Deleuze G and Guattari F (2010) A Thousand Plateaus. London: Continuum.
Ferrell J, Hayward K and Young J (2008) Cultural Criminology: An Invitation. London: SAGE.
Gough N (2004) RhizomANTically becoming-cyborg: Performing posthuman pedagogies.
Educational Philosophy and Theory 36(3): 253–265.
Marres N (2017) Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Smith GJ, Bennett Moses L and Chan J (2017) The challenges of doing criminology in the Big
Data era: Towards a digital and data-driven approach. British Journal of Criminology 57(2):
259–274.
Tangen J (2018) What is digital criminology? British Society of Criminology Midlands Regional
Group Seminar, Digital Criminology, De Montfort University, March. Available at: https:
//www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/16052 (last accessed 8 September 2018).
Wall D (2001) Cybercrimes and the internet. In: Wall D (ed.) Crime and the Internet. New York:
Routledge, 1–17.
Wood MA (2017) Antisocial Media: Crime-Watching in the Internet Age. London: Palgrave Mac
millan.
John M Eason, Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation, University
of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2017; 240 pp.: 9780226410340, $35.00 (ppk)
Reviewed by: Anne Bonds, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Despite growing concern about mass incarceration and the unprecedented size and scope
of the US criminal legal system, the literature examining the rural communities where
state and federal prisons are located remains relatively small. There is a growing, multi-
disciplinary body of scholarship that situates rural prison towns within the broader car-
ceral system, tracing how rural prison building across a range of geographic contexts is
produced through criminal legal policies, local and regional formations of race and class,
...
To continue reading
Request your trial