Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. By Pamela Davies, Peter Francis and Tanya Wyatt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 280pp. £65.00 hb)

Cogently argued and expertly researched, presented and written Invisible Crimes and Social Harms is a timely and trenchant reminder that a plethora of deleterious yet ‘relatively invisible’ illegalities and harms continue to persist. Nevertheless they exist beyond the investigatory scope of much criminological scholarship. Accordingly, the book’s contribution towards illuminating the contours of invisibility by facilitating the advancement of new and progressive research capable of challenging popular conceptualizations of crime and harm is indeed a salient one. Drawing, to various degrees, upon the ‘seven features of invisibility’ first identified by Jupp et al. (1999) and organized around the conceptualized categories of the body, the home, the street, the suite, the environment, the virtual and the state—and their concomitant levels and sources of power—the book presents 13 enticing chapters.

Chapter One by the editors helpfully explains in more detail the seven features of invisibility and presents pertinent contemporary examples that help...