Criminology
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The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
$22.99 Read moreA meticulous expos? of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition
Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises–best known for campaig
- Author: Tylek, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978393
- Language: English
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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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Lockerbie: A Father’s Search for Justice (Now a TV Series Starring Colin Firth)
$16.95 Read moreThe book of the brand-new Sky Original miniseries, starring Colin Firth as Jim Swire and directed by Otto Bathurst.
The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December … [more below]
- Author: Swire, Jim
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1780279205
- Language: English
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Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA
$66.67 Add to cartJosiah Sutton was convicted of rape. He was five inches shorter and 65 pounds lighter than the suspect described by the victim, but at trial a lab analyst testified that his DNA was found at the crime… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Erin E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1568584695
- Language: English
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The Golden State Killer Case
$15.99 Add to cartIn 2018, police announced that they had finally arrested the “Golden State Killer,” a man responsible for over 140 burglaries, 50 rapes and at least 13 murders committed in California throughout the 1… [more below]
- Series: Fifty States of Crime #2
- Author: Thorp, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1613166311
- Language: English
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Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
$28.00 Add to cartTold through the stories of six former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalist
By the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder.- Author: Rowe, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1419763156
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson
$19.95 Add to cartA jaw-dropping story of extraordinary deceit that left many victims in its wake and travelled around the world.
Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the world
- Author: Donelly, Beau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534068
- Language: English
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Confessions of an Undercover Agent: Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
$18.00 Add to cartThis true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Spillers, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1496818539
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Motive: The Fbi’s Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling authors of Mindhunter, a riveting exploration of the root of all crime.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive and you c- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0671023934
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia: Corn Sugar and Blood
$22.00 Add to cartThis enduring and fascinating chronicle of the Cleveland Mafia was written after the author’s many years of research into the murders of his grandfather and three uncles, who were mob bosses. The seve
- Author: Porrello, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987831205
- Language: English
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The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
$21.95 Read moreWe want to believe that there are some things we would never do. We want to believe that there are others we always would. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer li
- Author: Dias, Dexter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0099592541
- Language: English
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The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
$28.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devasta
- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1638931224
- Language: English
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No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
$28.95 Add to cartAn urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage
When Black women and girls are targeted and m- Author: Neely, Cheryl L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0807004561
- Language: English
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Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery
$9.99 Add to cartThe bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation–as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.
For the first time, two of the people who followed the st- Series: Berkley True Crime
- Author: Clark, Jerry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0425250555
- Language: English
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In Search of the Blonde Tigress: The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman
$29.95 Read moreBeginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the “blonde tigress” and “the most dangerous woman alive.” But a closer look at her life shows that she was an otherwise ordinary
- Author: Pettem, Silvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068636
- Language: English
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American Autopsy: One Medical Examiner’s Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System
$26.95 Read moreA revealing history of covering up the true causes of deaths of BIPOC in custody–from the forensic pathologist whose work changed the course of the George Floyd, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown cases … [more below]
- Author: Baden, Michael M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1637740468
- Language: English
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The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities
$30.00 Read moreA renowned judge wonders: What would criminal justice look like if we put respect at the center?
The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with
- Author: Pratt, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674839
- Language: English
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
$28.00 Read moreApple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize
From the New York Times- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574358
- Language: English
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More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How It Could Matter More
$19.95 Read moreIn More God, Less Crime renowned criminologist Byron R. Johnson proves that religion can be a powerful antidote to crime. The book describes how faith communities, congregations, and faith-based org
- Author: Johnson, Byron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1599473941
- Language: English
