Book review: Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Stick Together and Come Back Home
| Author | Alexandra Cox |
| DOI | 10.1177/1362480618796893 |
| Date | 01 August 2019 |
| Published date | 01 August 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
Theoretical Criminology 23(3)
critical research questions that entail innovative conceptual, theoretical and methodo-
logical approaches and tools. Barker’s new book has taken the research challenge and
offered great insights into the recent penal upsurge in Swedish migration/border control.
This book is a must read for those who are deeply concerned about issues of migration
control, punishment and the welfare state as well as their connections with globalization
and mass mobility.
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Loader I (2010) For penal moderation: Notes towards a public philosophy of punishment.
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Skocpol T (1985) Bringing the state back in: Strategies of analysis in current research. In: Evans
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Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Stick Together and Come Back Home, University of California Press:
Oakland, CA, 2018; 240 pp.: 9780520288591, $29.95 (pbk)
Reviewed by: Alexandra Cox, University of Essex, UK
It is well established that US criminal justice systems are, in effect, racialized social
systems (Bonilla-Silva, 2001). We have a growing knowledge about the historic and
structural roots that have contributed to the mass criminalization of people of color, and
the intersecting social forces that lead to the uses of imprisonment as a form of racial-
ized social control. We know less about the ways that imprisonment itself may actually
itself structure and contribute to the racialized social systems external to prisons that
enmesh Black and Brown people in processes of criminalization and social control.
Patrick Lopez-Aguado makes a significant...
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