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I don't know the book but there's lots of radical sociology of crime, some of it anarchist in origin. "Crime" is a weird kind of amalgam concept which includes so many different things that it's impossible to "solve" without disaggregating. There's a whole statist/neocon narrative which "explains" all crimes through moral disorder and breakdown of authority and it's impossible to rebut that on the same scale, even though it's easy to disprove. We can, however, show that punishment doesn't stop "crime", that it often increases "crime"/deviance, that most "crime" has social origins, that "crime" is rare or nonexistent in at least some small-scale anarchist societies, and that policing/punishment etc do more harm than "crime" anyway (e.g. compare number of arrests to number of private abductions). More precisely, we're dealing with a huge mixture of resource-use conflicts, effects of social inequality, survival strategies of the poor, illicit attempts at upward social mobility in a stratified economy, alienation and discontent among young people, feuds among largely atomised individuals (e.g. neighbours), unsanctioned forms of social control, forms of resistance (conscious or unconscious), expressions of unmet needs, disavowed dirty tricks by the powerful, and psychological "acting-out". The problem is, that most of the public have a lot invested in the sadistic channelling of unsatisfied desires through the endless purge of "criminals" and folk devils. Even this doesn't entirely foreclose anarchism since the same drives can be expressed in vigilantism. But we really need to replace the law/crime metaphor where one person violates a general norm, with a desire/dispute/conflict metaphor (a la Nietzsche, Stirner etc) where two or more people harm each other because they want different things, and this requires unpacking the sadistic drives. Unfortunately the sadistic drives are distorted forms of primary drives which are denied expression, so we need ways to reactivate and express the primary drives before this will work.