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  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    **#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 broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    • Best seller history: 250+ weeks on New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list, including as recently as December 2018.• New 10th anniversary preface: covering events of the past decade; we expect to serialize this.• New York Times columnist: Alexander is now a regular op-ed columnist, writing for the daily paper and the Sunday Review. • Tie-in with YA edition.• New cover· New 10th ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sadopaideia (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

    ‘Sadopaideia’ is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement and compliance.How far is too far?Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Under the Bridge

    *****Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!*“A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationOne moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Terrorism

    An Investigator's Handbook

    This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists. ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Defending the Damned

    Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office

    by Kevin Davis ...
    Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned the most challenging and seemingly hopeless cases, yet they always fight to win.One of those lawyers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Drugs, Crime and Public Health

    The Political Economy of Drug Policy

    by Alex Stevens ...
    Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Fear of Too Much Justice

    Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts

    A 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 racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the multiple ways in which the death penalty’s profound unfairness requires its abolition. You will discover Steve Bright’s passion, brilliance, dedication, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Doubt

    by Dan Simon ...
    Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Old Sparky

    The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

    A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Uncertain Justice

    Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953

    In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.In Uncertain Justice, Beverley Boissery and Murray Greenwood portray a cast of women characters almost as often wronged by the law as they have wronged society. Starting with the Powers trial and continuing to the not-too-distant past, the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Knock at Midnight

    A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

    LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system.“An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett is a star ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • A Toast to Silence

    Avoid Becoming Another Victim of Deceptive Police Tactics By Knowing When and How to Use the Power of Silence

    by Peter Baskin ...
    Every day, police deception tactics fool millions of Americans into giving evidence they don’t have to give, leading to their arrest and conviction in court because they don’t know when and how to take advantage of their absolute constitutional right to remain silent. By the time they hear the Miranda warning, they have already voluntarily given up the evidence the police need to make an arrest by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bribery: Law and Practice

    From being a minority interest of NGOs and niche law firms, corruption has grown into a subject which is rarely out of the media and which corporate lawyers and specialist consultants worldwide have seen as a new business opportunity. Bribery: Law and Practice from Monty Raphael QC, one of the most respected lawyers in this field, offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of this increasingly ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Case of a Lifetime

    A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story

    by Abbe Smith ...
    A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On the Lam

    A History of Hunting Fugitives in America

    Fugitives occupy a unique place in the American criminal justice system. They can run and they can hide, but eventually each chase ends. And, in many cases, history is made along the way.John Dillinger’s capture obsessed J. Edgar Hoover and helped create the modern FBI. Violent student radicals who went on the lam in the 1960s reflected the turbulence of the era. The sixteen-year disappearance and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Riders Come Out at Night

    Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland

    From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account” (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A New Leaf

    The End of Cannabis Prohibition

    Two award-winning journalists offer a “cogent, well-sourced and ambitious analysis of the slow decline of cannabis prohibition in the United States” (Kirkus Reviews).In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use—a first in the United States and the world. Once vilified as a “gateway drug,” cannabis is now ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Brute Force Fails

    How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Executing Grace

    How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us

    In this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champion of the new monastic movement, popular speaker, and author of the bestselling The Irresistible Revolution offers a powerful and persuasive appeal for the abolition of the death penalty.The Bible says an eye for an eye. But is the state’s taking of a life true—or even practical—punishment for convicted prisoners? In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Innocent Man

    Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

    by John Grisham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment WeeklyIn the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Punishing Race

    A Continuing American Dilemma

    by Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Target on my Back

    A Prosecutor's Terrifying Tale of Life on a Hit List

    by Erleigh Wiley ...
    Murders don't happen in Kaufman County, Texas, a sleepy community where people raise their kids quietly and drive into Dallas for work and entertainment. In 2013, murder came to town when two professional prosecutors were slain in cold blood, simply for doing their jobs: one in broad daylight in plain view of the courthouse, and one in his home, along with his wife. Eric Williams is responsible ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Autopsy of a Crime Lab

    Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

    This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions."That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well ... Read more

    $28.99 USD