Avi Brisman, Bill McClanahan, Nigel South and Reece Walters (2018) Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century challenges the taken-for-granted assumption that comprehensive criminological analyses and water do not mix.On the contrary, as the authors detail, a greater examination of water from a criminological perspective progresses a timely and warranted discussion forward, centring and acknowledging the interrelations between water, crime and social justice.The authors propose a novel analysis of the water-crime nexus, exploring resonances from a broader vantage point of examining how these notions intersect, coalesce and conflict.The authors argue that this text provides criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water and crime-and, indeed, this statement should not go unnoticed.Water is the essence of life, but for too long criminological analyses have not given water the examination it properly deserves.As water is essential to everyone everywhere, the authors make a compelling argument for the recognition that it is and ought to be a basic human right.Casting a critical lens on the power, interests and social forces that determine, grapple with or resist the current quantity, quality and accessibility of freshwater worldwide, this book provides not only a sophisticated account of water and crime, but also makes an excellent step in the right direction to examine key connections between the two elements, which can no longer be suppressed or evaded by criminological inquiry.A well-structured and provocative book, the authors divide the text into eight chapters.Each chapter centres upon a main challenge freshwater faces as it is drawn into human interests, and the criminal activities that ensue when such interests clash.Chapter 1 is the introduction to the book, which outlines the justifications for the complicated yet timely necessity of its focusnotably, a criminological overview of the historical and contemporary relationship between water and crime, which seeks to capture the ways in which criminology could engage with current and ongoing issues of each component going forward.Chapter 2 ('Too Dirty') addresses water and pollution as a global problem with local and regional manifestations.Tied into the issue of pollution is the equally important issue of access, and it is this tragedy of water access that the authors turn to in the following chapter.As such, Chapter 3 ('Too Little') focuses on water availability and access, particularly examining such accessibility issues in both the Global South and Global North.As water is fundamental for all life on the planet, the scarcity of and access to water shapes how human interests will converge or conflict, especially when restrictions that

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