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  • Joanna Schwartz The best books to understand the human toll of the criminal justice system Book cover of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Book cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir Book cover of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
  • Robert L. Tsai The best books to understand the role of race and poverty in the criminal justice system Book cover of The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Book cover of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
  • Matthew J. Sharps he best books about cognitive science and the criminal justice system Book cover of Eyewitness Testimony: With a New Preface Book cover of Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology Book cover of The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters: Science, Practice, and Policy Book cover of On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace Book cover of The Science of False Memory
  • Maurice Possley The best books including true stories with meaning and power Book cover of Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois Book cover of Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt Book cover of Reporter: A Memoir Book cover of Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
  • Ashley Rubin The best books on the origins of American prisons Book cover of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 Book cover of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 Book cover of Worse Than Slavery Book cover of Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control Book cover of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
  • Justin Brooks Justin Brooks' favorite books that will change how you see the criminal justice system Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Book cover of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions Book cover of Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States
  • Emilio Corsetti III The best books about wrongful convictions and their causes Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir Book cover of Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions Book cover of The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen Book cover of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
  • Brian Forst The best books on the economics of crime and justice Book cover of White-Collar Crime Book cover of The Costs of Crime and Justice Book cover of Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs Book cover of The Privatization of Policing: Two Views Book cover of An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications
  • Charles Oldham The best books about true crimes that are fascinating, but not so well known Book cover of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Book cover of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial Book cover of Until You Are Dead Book cover of Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders Book cover of Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of Nancy Morgan
  • Terence Keel The best books about justice in America that will terrify you Book cover of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 Book cover of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Book cover of America on Fire Book cover of Not A Crime To Be Poor Book cover of No Human Involved
  • Leigh Goodmark The best anger-inducing non-fiction books on women and the criminal legal system Book cover of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women Book cover of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Book cover of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence Book cover of Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights Book cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
  • James M. Denham The best books on crime and punishment in the Antebellum South Book cover of Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South Book cover of Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South Book cover of Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System Book cover of American Homicide Book cover of Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865
  • Tom Buitelaar The best books on the effectiveness of international criminal courts (hint - it’s complicated) Book cover of Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics Book cover of Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics Book cover of Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court's Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace Book cover of The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court: From Law to Justice Book cover of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror
  • Frederick E. Vars Frederick E. Vars' favorite books to change how you think about mental health Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Book cover of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Book cover of Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis Book cover of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
  • Tanya Maria Golash-Boza The best books about how DC became the most gentrified city in the country Book cover of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City Book cover of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City Book cover of African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation's Capital Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Book cover of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
  • Chris Wilson The best books about the criminal industrial complex Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Danny Katch The best books on winning socialism in our lifetime Book cover of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice Book cover of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth Book cover of The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders Book cover of Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream Book cover of People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
  • Virginia Reeves The best books about imprisonment (both literal and figurative) Book cover of The Executioner's Song Book cover of Then the Fish Swallowed Him Book cover of Jack Book cover of Katalin Street Book cover of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
  • Patricia Hruby Powell The best YA books to right social injustice (especially racism) Book cover of Punching the Air Book cover of Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) Book cover of This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Book cover of King and the Dragonflies Book cover of Furia
  • Reginald (Reggie) L. Reed Jr. The best books to promote the power of human healing Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir Book cover of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Damaged but Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph
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