Criminal Law
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The Incarceration Explosion: We Must Do Better
$28.99 Add to cartIn The Incarceration Explosion, Michael Wing and Victoria Junkins expose the harsh realities of America’s sprawling prison system. With millions incarcerated, the authors confront the dire consequence
- Author: Wing, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1959099957
- Language: English
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A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It
$27.99 Add to cartA sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences
Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner
- Author: Block, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978873
- Language: English
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang
life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth
portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigati… [more below]- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163327
- Language: English
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Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award-win… [more below]
- Author: Jayadev, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977001
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 Add to cartThe award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of v
- Author: Sered, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
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Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial
$43.93 Add to cartBased on first-hand interviews with victims, offenders, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative jus
- Author: Perrin, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1487506279
- Language: English
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Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas about Justice
$34.98 Read moreHow to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors
“An extraordinary and long overdue collection off- Author: Travis, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977559
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants includ
- Author: Schultz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022676074X
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law
$26.99 Add to cart
The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal History
In The Devil’s Advocates, Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell turn to the dramatic crimes and tria… [more below]- Author: Lief, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0743246691
- Language: English
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The War on Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way
$33.99 Add to cartIn 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, T… [more below]
- Author: Drinan, Cara H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190605553
- Language: English
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Gabriel Lock: Bound by Law
$28.67 Add to cartWe first meet Gabriel when he is packing up his things and resigning from the State Attorney’s Office to join his father’s civil law firm. As he’s leaving, he tells a colleague that he doesn’t want to… [more below]
- Author: Cancio, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1962825221
- Language: English
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Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics
$37.43 Add to cartThis book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions.
“That’s not my fingerprint, your honor,” said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a “100-pe
- Author: Garrett, Brandon L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 520379330
- Language: English
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In Good Hands: Investigating Death, Mystery, and the Lessons of Broken Trust in One Family Day Care
$29.99 Add to cartWhen In Good Hands won The American Society of Journalists and Authors book award for general nonfiction, the judges called it “riveting reading!”
It’s a medical and psychological mystery story with i
- Author: Hechler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988257813
- Language: English
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What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
$31.48 Read more“This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.” –from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson
A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America’s cr
- Author: Nixon, Vivian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975297
- Language: English
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Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II
$55.00 Add to cartThe science of interviewing and interrogation has continuously evolved since World War II, through the contributions by experts from around the world, from different legal systems and traditions. But
- Author: Oxburgh, Gavin E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 594
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 8283482009
- Language: English
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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
$20.00 Add to cartDominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed.
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes,- Author: Dunne, Dominick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14, 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809636
- Language: English
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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
$18.00 Add to cartWith a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America’s “most humane” execution method is anything but.
From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to r
- Author: Sarat, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1503633535
- Language: English
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The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the Polk Award-winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account” (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within … [more below]
- Author: Winston, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168609
- Language: English
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Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
$10.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming wid… [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 447
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743410130
- Language: English
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The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided
$19.00 Add to cartThe harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town
On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillico- Author: Cooper, Sean Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0143135449
- Language: English
