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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Just Mercy

By Bryan Stevenson ,

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The New Jim Crow

By Michelle Alexander ,

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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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Locking Up Our Own

By James Forman Jr. ,

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We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us

By Mariame Kaba ,

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Punching the Air
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Punching the Air

By Ibi Zoboi , Yusef Salaam ,

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Worse Than Slavery
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Worse Than Slavery

By David M. Oshinsky ,

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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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Golden Gulag

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore ,

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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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Random Family

By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ,

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

By Elizabeth Hinton ,

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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

By Radley Balko , Tucker Carrington ,

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Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South
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Vengeance and Justice

By Edward L. Ayers ,

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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System
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Criminal Injustice

By Glenn McNair ,

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Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control
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Partial Justice

By Nicole Hahn Rafter ,

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Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
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Breaking the Pendulum

By Philip Goodman , Joshua Page , Michelle Phelps

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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)

By Bryan Stevenson ,

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The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public
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The Myth of Overpunishment

By Barry Latzer ,

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The Prosecutor
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The Prosecutor

By Nazir Afzal ,

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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
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Texas Tough

By Robert Perkinson ,

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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
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Corrections in Ink

By Keri Blakinger ,

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Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois
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Until I Could Be Sure

By George H. Ryan ,

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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
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Beyond Innocence

By Phoebe Zerwick ,

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A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
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A Murder in Virginia

By Suzanne Lebsock ,

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Until You Are Dead
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Until You Are Dead

By Julian Sher ,

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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
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Anger and Forgiveness

By Martha C. Nussbaum ,

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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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The Secret Barrister

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The Twisting Lane: Some Sex Offenders
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The Twisting Lane

By Tony Parker ,

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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The Costs of Crime and Justice
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The Costs of Crime and Justice

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Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs
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Controlling Crime

By Philip J. Cook , Jens Ludwig , Justin McCrary

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The Privatization of Policing: Two Views
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The Privatization of Policing

By Brian Forst , Peter K. Manning ,

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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Newjack

By Ted Conover ,

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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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Charged

By Emily Bazelon ,

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Eyewitness Testimony: With a New Preface
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Eyewitness Testimony

By Elizabeth F. Loftus ,

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Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
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Remembering

By Frederic C. Bartlett ,

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The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters: Science, Practice, and Policy
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The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters

By Laurence Miller ,

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The Science of False Memory
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The Science of False Memory

By C. J. Brainerd (editor) , V. F. Reyna (editor) ,

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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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Beyond Survival

By Ejeris Dixon , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ,

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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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Covered with Night

By Nicole Eustace ,

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
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Tangled Up in Blue

By Rosa Brooks ,

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The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts
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The Fear of Too Much Justice

By Stephen Bright , James Kwak ,

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Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
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Crazy in America

By Mary Pfeiffer ,

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The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen
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The Edge of Doubt

By David Miraldi ,

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All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
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All Our Trials

By Emily L Thuma ,

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Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
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Manifesting Justice

By Valena Beety ,

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Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
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Blind Injustice

By Mark Godsey ,

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Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics
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Distant Justice

By Phil Clark ,

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The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court: From Law to Justice
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The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court

By Marieke Wierda ,

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The New Jim Crow
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The New Jim Crow

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