Newburn (criminology, London School of Economics) offers a reader to accompany his 2007 textbook Criminology, but he says the anthology could be used with other textbooks or in any legal manner the owner chooses. The readings are primarily excerpts from books and articles, and are organized to parallel the chapters in the textbook. The goal is to provide students with recent examples of writing in the field, and to demonstrate how the ideas presented in the textbook are applied in actual research. Among the 35 themes are crime and punishment in history, biological positivism, interactionism and labeling theory, feminist criminology, drugs and alcohol, the police and policing, restorative justice, criminal and forensic psychology, and doing criminological research. Each section begins with an introduction and a set of discussion questions. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)