Criminology
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Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
$26.99 Read more95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them?
There’s Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after n
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1728236517
- Language: English
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
$18.00 Read moreTransformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and rep
- Author: Dixon, Ejeris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 184935362X
- Language: English
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Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning
$29.99 Read moreFrom Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre
True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioriti
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063323923
- Language: English
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
$20.00 Add to cart“Poignant….important and illuminating.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Groundbreaking.”–Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy From one of the world’s leading experts on- Author: Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 0735224951
- Language: English
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
$17.99 Add to cartA darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life
- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 147673934X
- Language: English
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
$18.99 Add to cartRevised and Updated
The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari’s journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question-- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1620408910
- Language: English
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – One of the Washington Post‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction bo… [more below]- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110918
- Language: English
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Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
$22.00 Add to cartAfter more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how
- Author: Chaudry, Rabia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250146542
- Language: English
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty y- Author: Robertson, Cara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1501168398
- Language: English
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Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
$17.99 Add to cartA “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.In Savage Appetites,
- Author: Monroe, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1501188895
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Restorative Justice
$8.99 Add to cartOver 150,000-copies sold Author Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understanding of justice.
Here Zehr proposes workab- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1561488232
- Language: English
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
$25.48 Add to cartWith a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”
“But what does it mean–really–to celebrate reforms that convert your home i
- Author: Schenwar, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976978
- Language: English
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What’s Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration
$16.00 Read moreWhat happens inside our prisons?
What’s Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of “mass incarceration.” What happens inside prisons and jails, where nearly two million Americans are held? Bill- Author: Keller, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 173591374X
- Language: English
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
$18.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.
North Korea’s political prison camps have existed t
- Author: Harden, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143122916
- Language: English
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752552
- Language: English
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE – A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a … [more below]
- Author: Leovy, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0385529996
- Language: English
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Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
$24.00 Add to cartBefore Orange is the New Black, there was Inside.
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the- Author: Santos, Michael G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312343507
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Leaves
$10.99 Add to cartThe shocking true crime story of one of the most bizarre mass murders ever recorded–and the girl who escaped with her life.
In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four p- Series: Berkley True Crime
- Author: Scott, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0425258823
- Language: English
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Killer Nurse: The Harrowing True Story of One Woman’s Murder Spree in an East Texas Town
$9.99 Read moreShe was hired to nurse them back to health…instead, she took their lives.
For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurri- Author: Foxjohn, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06, 2013
- ISBN10: 0425263657
- Language: English
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Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
$11.99 Add to cartRobert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac–America’s most elusive serial killer.
Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claimin… [more below]- Author: Graysmith, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0425212734
- Language: English
