Criminology
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Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars
$16.99 Add to cart“These recipes make me smile and laugh out loud with joy, memory, and awe at their total culinary genius. All born from a bond of pure hunger?”–Samuel L. Jackson, from the Foreword
When you’re in pr- Author: Collins, Clifton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0761185526
- Language: English
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The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
$19.99 Add to cartTHE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez, aka “Boxer,” and his rise in a secret criminal organization, a new Mafia, that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all o
- Author: Blatchford, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 0061944181
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Evil
$19.95 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors t… [more below]
- Author: Michael H. Stone MD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883353
- Language: English
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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, fro… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1101907312
- Language: English
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Un-Making a Murderer: The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
$18.73 Add to cart“Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up” – Brad Dassey
Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the autho- Author: Keogh, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23, 2017
- ISBN10: 1542726271
- Language: English
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly’ Slate’ Chronicle of Higher Education’ Literary Hub, Book Riot’ and Zora
A tenth-anniversary edition of the
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620971933
- Language: English
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Wise Guy
$18.99 Add to cartNicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew u
- Author: Pileggi, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16, 2019
- ISBN10: 1982129905
- Language: English
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Mindhunter: Inside the Fbi’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
$19.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix original series
Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 1501191969
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit
$8.99 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE
Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise–until her murderous, fugitive father drew he- Author: Birkbeck, Matt
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0425204405
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Julian V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198716494
- Language: English
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
$24.00 Add to cartPathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current an
- Author: Stanley, Eric A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1849352348
- Language: English
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon’s Best Books of the Year 2015–Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year–Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economi- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 1620402521
- Language: English
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Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
$10.99 Add to cartRobert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.
A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer t- Author: Graysmith, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0425212181
- Language: English
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Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West
$27.00 Add to cartKnown for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and wer… [more below]
- Author: Reasoner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0425191931
- Language: English
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When Lambs Become Wolves: The Chilling Case of Sheila Von Wiese-Mack
$22.95 Add to cartA bold firsthand account of the circumstances surrounding the notorious Bali “Suitcase Murder” and the human cost of overlooking child-to-parent violence and abuse
On August 12, 2014, the body of 62-ye
- Series: Illinois Lives
- Author: Freelain, Rasul T., (Ret ).
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0809339943
- Language: English
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Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
$21.00 Add to cartA powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.
While reporting on- Author: Hubner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0375759980
- Language: English
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Life Plus 16 Years: A True Story of Consequences, Redemption, and Coming Home
$15.99 Add to cartIn Life Plus 16 Years, Grady Morris Jr. recounts the pivotal moment at nineteen when a reckless decision led to another man’s death, forever altering his life and the lives of many others. Sentenced t
- Author: Morris, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318830853
- Language: English
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Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block
$32.00 Read moreA Ms. Magazine “Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026” Pick
Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to t- Author: Leflouria, Talitha L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2026
- ISBN10: 080700393X
- Language: English
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Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders
$29.95 Add to cartA MAJOR NEW STUDY OF THE MANSON MURDERS, SITUATING THE INFAMOUS CRIMINAL CASE AT A FULCRUM MOMENT IN HISTORY
In August 1969, members of charismatic leader Charles Manson’s countercultural “family” mur- Author: Verhoeven, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1804298077
- Language: English
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Running Amok: Inside the Mind of the Lone Mass Killer
$27.95 Add to cartWhat drives someone to commit the unthinkable? Paul E. Mullen, one of the world’s pre-eminent forensic psychiatrists, examines the complex workings of the lone multiple murderer – a spectre haunting m
- Author: Mullen, Paul E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1917569009
- Language: English
