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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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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 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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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
$33.82 Read moreA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence–and what we can do about it
The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. ju- Author: Dybdahl, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977044
- Language: English
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The American Judicial System: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAt some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or be… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Zelden, Charles L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0190644915
- Language: English
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Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All
$29.99 Add to cartStephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to criminal justice policy were crashing down on the most
- Author: Tsai, Robert L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867838
- Language: English
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Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions
Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their inno- Author: Medwed, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675916
- Language: English
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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
$33.82 Read moreIn Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims’ rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head o
- Author: Anderson, Lenore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977125
- Language: English
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Little Book of Listening: Listening as a Radical Act of Love, Justice, Healing, and Transformation
$7.99 Add to cartA practical guide to listening well in restorative justice programs and any relationship.
The Little Book of Listening is an introduction to and practical guide for listening as an emergent strategy f- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Browning, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680998986
- Language: English
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX – A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our br… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0812994523
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976579
- Language: English
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Rikers: An Oral History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have
- Author: Rayman, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134214
- Language: English
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The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts
$34.98 Add to cartA legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts
“An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racia- Author: Bright, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1620970252
- Language: English
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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent
$29.95 Add to cartSurviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you.
Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You- Author: Brooks, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520386833
- Language: English
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Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
$34.98 Read moreWith a foreword by Bruce Western
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole–and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both–f- Author: Schiraldi, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978172
- Language: English
