THE GRADUATE STUDENT CORNER

Hello again, everyone! Welcome to 2003, and to another informative installment of the Graduate Student Corner.

I don't know about the rest of you, but whenever the holidays roll around I always think that it would be smart to create a "wish list" of books that I would like to own, but that I don't have the time (or the money) to buy. The problem is that I never know which books I should ask for. It is this unfulfilled desire to enhance my personal library that prompted the topic for this edition of the G.S.C.

I asked my panel of experts to propose a list of books that they consider to be "must-reads" for graduate students. These books might be: (1) textbooks written by feminist authors that address race/class/gender issues; (2) textbooks in more general subject areas (e.g., policing, juvenile justice, corrections, etc.) used in teaching undergraduate courses; (3) influential novels or works of fiction; or (4) any other books that our experts felt compelled to recommend. I received some great suggestions, and I'm hopeful that the list of books presented here will help other graduate students decide which books they want to add to their own personal collections. (So, start making your holiday "wish lists" early!)

For their contributions to this column, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to: Nancy Hogan, Kristy Holtfreter, Beth Huebner, Angie Moe, Roz Muraskin, Sharon Redhawk Love, Amanda Robinson, and Susan Sharp.

If you have questions that you would like to see answered in this column, or if you are interested in responding to grad students' questions, please e-mail me at burges26@msu.edu.

Thanks again to all of you who helped with this column. Enjoy!

Regards,
Amanda
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CORRECTIONS

Carlson, P., & Garrett, J. (1999). Prison and Jail Administration.
Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc. [ISBN: 0834208679]

Conover, T. (2001). Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing. New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group. [ISBN: 0375726624]

Currie, E. (1998). Crime and Punishment in America. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company. [ISBN: 0805060162]

Flanagan, T., Marquart, J., & Adams, K. (1998). Incarcerating Criminals:
Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context. New York, NY: Oxford University Publishing. [ISBN: 0195105419]

Foucalt, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. [ISBN: 0679752552]

Garland, D. (1994). Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. [ISBN: 0226283828]

Gordon, R. (2000). The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press. [ISBN: 0874221986]

Hassine, V. (1999). Life Without Parole: Living in Prison Today. Los
Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company. [ISBN: 1891487132]

Owen, B. (1998). In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [ISBN: 079143608X]

Rothman, D. (2002). Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and its Alternatives in Progressive America (revised). New York: Aldine de Gruyter. [ISBN: 020230714X]

Rothman, D. (2002). Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (revised). New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. [ISBN: 0202307158]

Van Voorhis, P., Braswell, M, & Lester, D. (1997). Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation (3rd ed.). Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing.
[ISBN: 087084377X]

BATTERING/SEXUAL ASSAULT/CHILD ABUSE

Allison, D. (1996). Bastard out of Carolina. New York, NY: Dutton/Plume. [ISBN: 0452278643]

Binggelli, N, Hart, S. & Brassard, M. (2001). Psychological maltreatment
of children. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ISBN: 0141002948]

Estrich, S. (1988). Real Rape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [ISBN: 0674749448]

Lefkowitz, B. (1998). Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb. City, ST: Vintage Books. [ISBN: 0375702695]

Quindlen, A. (2000). Black and Blue. New York, NY: Random House. [ISBN: 0385333137]

Raphael, J. (2000). Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press. [ISBN: 1555534384]

Sebold, A. (2002). The Lovely Bones. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company. [ISBN: 0316666343]

GANGS/ADOLESCENT ISSUES

Jah, Y., Shah'Keyah, S. (1997). Uprising. Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster. [ISBN: 0684825376]

Messerchmidt, J. (1999). Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [ISBN: 0813366674]

Pollock, W. (2001). Real boys' voices. New York, NY: Penguin Publishers.
[ISBN: 0141002948]

Sikes, G. (1998). 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters. City: ST, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. [ISBN: 0385474326]

RACE/CLASS/GENDER (GENERAL)

Anderson, M. and Hill Collins, P. (Eds.). (2001). Race, Class, and Gender (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadworth. [ISBN: 0534568920]

Connell, R. (1995). Masculinities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [ISBN: 0520089995]

Curtis, J. and Tepperman, L. (Eds.). (1993). Haves and Have-Nots: An International Reader on Social Inequality. Indianapolis, IN: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference. [ISBN: 0130116696]

Hill Collins, P. (2001). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN: 0415924847]

Hill Collins, P. (1998). Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (Vol. 7). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [ISBN: 0816623775]

Kerbo, R. (2002). Social Stratification and Inequality (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [ISBN: 0072487704]

Lorber, J. & Farrell, S (Eds.). (1991). The Social Construction of Gender. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. [ISBN: 0803939574]

McWhorter, J. (2001). Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. New York, NY: HarperCollins. [ISBN: 0060935936]

Rothman, R. (2001). Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. [ISBN: 0130336696]

Rubin, B. (1995). Shifts in the Social Contract: Understanding Change in American Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ISBN: 0803990405]

Spence, G. (1990). With Justice for None: Destroying an American Myth. New York, NY: Viking Penguin. [ISBN: 0140133259]

Steele, S. (1991). Content of our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. New York, NY: HarperCollins. [ISBN: 006097415X]

RACE/CLASS/GENDER (CRIMINAL JUSTICE)

Belknap, J. (2000). The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. [ISBN: 0534542093]

Chesney Lind, M. (1999). The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ISBN: 0803950993]

Fineman, M. A. and Karpin, I. (Eds.). (1995). Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. [ISBN: 023109681X]

Messerchmidt, J. (1997). Crime as Structured Action: Gender, Race, Class and Crime in the Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ISBN: 0761907181]

Messerchmidt, J. (1993). Masculinities and Crime: Critique and Reconceptualization of Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. [ISBN: 0847678687]

Muraskin, R. (Ed.). (2003). It's a Crime: Women and Justice (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [ISBN: 0130482005]

RESEARCH METHODS

Feagin, J., Drum, A., & Sjoberg, G. (Eds.). (1992). A Case for the Case Study. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. [ISBN: 0807843210]

Reinharz, S. (1992). Feminist Methods in Social Research. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [ISBN: 019507386X]

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Kandall, S. (1996). Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the U.S. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Rettig, R. (1999). Manny: A Criminal-Addict's Story. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [ISBN: 1577660587]

Rosenbaum, M. (1981). Women on Heroin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. [ISBN: 0813509467]