The terms and the significance of the debates over disenfranchisement are now much clearer than they were before the publication of this rich and judicious book. Everyone who cares about either the justice or the wisdom of denying the vote to criminal offenders should read Punishment and Citizenship, and all who do will profit from its author's astute combination of comparative social enquiry and normative penal theory.
Milena Tripkovic is a Lecturer in the Birmingham Law School at the University of Birmingham.