Criminology
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
$25.43 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The “elegant but harrowing” (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern-day form of torture
On any given da- Author: Casella, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973510
- Language: English
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The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartNo topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Cook, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0190073454
- Language: English
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty – “Stunning moral clari… [more below]
- Author: Prejean, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751319
- Language: English
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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
$25.95 Add to cartSince the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery
- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0231180330
- Language: English
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Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
$18.99 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062839888
- Language: English
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Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
$19.99 Add to cartAn urgent exposﾃ(c)f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with ment- Author: Roth, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646479
- Language: English
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Dark City. the Real Los Angeles Noir
$70.00 Add to cartIn the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a
- Author: Heimann, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 3836560763
- Language: English
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
$25.65 Read moreThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco’s underworld in al… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254084
- Language: English
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narra… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1451645171
- Language: English
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The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News
$21.95 Read moreA groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate
In The Trauma Beat, an ey
- Author: Cherry, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1770416862
- Language: English
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I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing
“Essential. . . . It
- Author: Warshaw, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 006284430X
- Language: English
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartA powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982154446
- Language: English
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
$68.68 Add to cartInnocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo.
Praise fr
- Author: Fabricant, M. Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1636140300
- Language: English
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The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “unmissable book” (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.
- Author: Adshead, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982134801
- Language: English
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
$21.99 Add to cartA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After tw- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774051
- Language: English
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
$21.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson prote… [more below]
- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1541774531
- Language: English
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Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
$28.99 Add to cartDoes the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first pub
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0836199472
- Language: English
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Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons
$27.00 Add to cartEdited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.
Abolition for the Pe
- Author: Kaepernick, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1595911162
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
$22.00 Add to cartPassionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence.
Why do some kids from good- Author: Raine, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0307475611
- Language: English
