TY - JOUR
AU - Simon, Jonathan
AB - 266 Theoretical Criminology 10(2) Barrios’ work will be important for the three theoretical contributions it makes: (1) viewing the gang as a broader social organization, thereby emphasizing the non-criminal activities of members and the group, (2) their emphasis on social movements as part of gang identity and activity and (3) the role of self-identity in the evolution of the gang. Michael Tonry Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0–19–514101–6. • Reviewed by Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley, USA After being a stealth issue, even in criminology (but see Zimring and Hawkins, 1991), for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, the unprecedented punitiveness of the United States became a hot topic beginning in the late 1990s and has received growing attention from sociologists and criminologists (e.g. Beckett, 1997; Simon, 1997; Currie, 1998; Garland, 2001). Michael Tonry, long one of the leading experts on American penal trends, stayed largely in the background on this issue during the 1990s, promoting attention to the American pattern through his widely read newsletter Overcrowded Times, but not making a major statement of his own, has finally jumped fully into the discussion with his most 
TI - Book Review: Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture
JF - Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal
DO - 10.1177/136248060601000210
DA - 2006-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-thinking-about-crime-sense-and-sensibility-in-american-IlSZ08pjjD
SP - 266
EP - 271
VL - 10
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -