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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1977, c1975
Language
English
Description
As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument-;that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers-;and forever changed the way Americans think about crime. Now with a new foreword by the prominent scholar...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Language
English
Description
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. His commitment to reforming the justice system and making America a more equitable place has brought challenges and triumphs, soaring victories and crushing defeats. Throughout his wide-ranging activism, King's commentary remains rooted in both exhaustive research and abundant passion....
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors'...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga behind "Making a Murderer" with other controversial cases from his career, Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a persuasive call for reform.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A man accused of a murder he didn't commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This legal thriller has one crucial difference: justice is not served in the end. In 1986, Kris Maharaj was arrested in Miami for the murder of his ex-business partner. A witness swore he saw him pull the trigger and a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death. But he swears he didn't do it. Twenty years later, he's bankrupted himself...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gotham
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper's bestselling series, inspired by the numerous young inmates who write to him seeking guidance After the publication of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother, accomplished actor and speaker Hill Harper began to receive an increasing number of moving letters from inmates who yearned for a connection with a successful role model. With disturbing statistics on African-American incarceration on his...
15) Law & disorder
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling reflects on his forty-year career during which he pursued and studied such criminals as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz and devoted his time to helping the wrongfully convicted.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of policing and democracy in America examines how aggressive policing combined with racial inequality has created conditions resembling a police state, and argues for a more democratic and sympathetic justice system.
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