Fritsvold's 'Dorm Room Dealers' Receives Favorable Reviews

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Erik D. Fritsvold, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at USD, reports that Alex Stevens from the University of Kent, UK, gave a very favorable review of Dorm Room Dealers [A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 197pp., ISBN: 978-1-58826-816-7 (pb)]. Quoting Stevens' closing comment: "The book provides an excellent and important account of how the ‘cream of American youth’ are still protected from the legal consequences of their criminal actions." [Stevens Book Review, Drugs: education, prevention and policy, Early Online: 1, Copyright ! 2013 Informa UK Ltd., ISSN: 0968-7637 print/1465-3370 online DOI: 10.3109/09687637.2012.755873. [ View full review (pdf) ]

Fritsvold also reports that the new 10th edition of Jeffrey Reiman’s and Paul Leighton's very influential book, The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison [Pearson, 10 edition (October 14, 2012), ISBN-10: 0205137725, ISBN-13: 978-0205137725, paperback, 304 pages] has two full paragraphs (pp. 127, 136) discussing Dorm Room Dealers.