Criminal Law
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The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America
$28.95 Read moreHow does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America, your liberty–or even your l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kevin B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538192381
- Language: English
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The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die with Dignity
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting account of one death row inmate’s quest to die–and a fearless look at how America’s system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve.
When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s de- Author: Toboni, Gianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668033011
- Language: English
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Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
$31.99 Add to cartFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters
“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal stru- Author: Karakatsanis, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978539
- Language: English
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Acting Out: How a Prison Theatre Workshop Broke Free
$27.95 Add to cartWhen Richard Hoehler first walked through the doors of a medium security prison in upstate New York, he assumed it would be a one-time thing. As a busy freelance writer, actor and teacher he had nonet
- Author: Hoehler, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1493085557
- Language: English
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The Farmer’s Wife: A True Story
$17.00 Add to cartIn the southern Maryland hamlet of Friendship, a young wife and mother is found brutally murdered, her head bashed in with a crude implement. The Farmer’s Wife-by Carol Booker, author of the best-sell
- Author: Booker, Carol McCabe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988299837
- Language: English
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Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr- Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059342008X
- Language: English
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Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
$17.00 Read moreFrom a prominent criminal law professor, a provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it.
When Americans think of the criminal- Author: Byrne Hessick, Carissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1419750305
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre
$16.99 Read moreIn the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s memoir, The Devil’s Defender, recounts his tortuous education … [more below]
- Author: Browne, John Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777672
- Language: English
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Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
$18.95 Read moreIn this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as t
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022108
- Language: English
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A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
$20.00 Read moreLOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST – NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE – A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true … [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Brittany K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1984825801
- Language: English
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas–and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America
“If you’re one of those people w- Author: Chammah, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1524760285
- Language: English
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The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial
$24.95 Add to cartJustice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes.
- Series: True Crime History
- Author: James, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353942
- Language: English
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Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration
$20.98 Read moreA riveting primer on the growing trend of surveillance, monitoring, and control that is extending our prison system beyond physical walls and into a dark future–by the prize-winning author of Underst
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976145
- Language: English
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Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
$18.00 Read moreThe FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.
“R- Author: Noesner, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525511288
- Language: English
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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
$18.95 Add to cartThe “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1619021552
- Language: English
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Law & Disorder: How a Kid from the Bronx Became America’s Top Drug Prosecutor
$18.95 Read moreThis is the real stuff. It’s about the people who make the decisions on how cases are handled, the different units and bureaus in the prosecutor’s office, and takes the reader into “the room where it … [more below]
- Author: Silbering, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1608082962
- Language: English
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The Defense Lawyer
$24.99 Add to cartFrom a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz–and won every single case.
Known for his sharp mind, sh- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1538703629
- Language: English
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The Harm in Hate Speech
$23.00 Read moreEvery liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech–except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Agai
- Series: Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures #10
- Author: Waldron, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0674416864
- Language: English
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Baptized by Fire: My Personal Experiences, Career, and Adventures in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
$26.95 Add to cartThis book is a compilation of my personal adventures, experiences, and memories in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The reader will experience through my eyes what a career in law enforcem
- Author: Rolman, Patricio Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893151787
- Language: English
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Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr- Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059342008X
- Language: English
