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  • Frances McNamara The best books about real women in criminology Book cover of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Book cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics Book cover of Twenty Years at Hull House Book cover of Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Book cover of Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
  • 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
  • C. A. Asbrey The best books for writers of Victorian mysteries Book cover of A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie Book cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics Book cover of Criminal Investigation: A Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers Book cover of Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death Book cover of When Science Sheds Light on History: Forensic Science and Anthropology
  • Russell C. Crandall The best books on what the war on drugs is really about Book cover of Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Book cover of Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World Book cover of Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel, an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and International Corruption Book cover of El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Book cover of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
  • 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
  • Robert Wilhelm The best books on murder in America’s Gilded Age Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of The Trial of Lizzie Borden Book cover of Stagolee Shot Billy Book cover of Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven Book cover of Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
  • Rick Geary The best books on unsolved murders Book cover of My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Book cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery Book cover of Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth
  • Kate Feiffer The best books with the word “dog” in the title Book cover of Love That Dog Book cover of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Book cover of Thurber's Dogs Book cover of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Book cover of Stepdog
  • Sam Mitrani The best books for understanding why both liberal and conservative takes on the police miss the real problem Book cover of Autobiography Book cover of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book cover of I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
  • Annie Reed The best books about bygone women you'd want to avoid at all costs Book cover of La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century Book cover of The Witch of Lime Street: Seance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Book cover of The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars Book cover of The Trial of Lizzie Borden Book cover of The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
  • Judith A. Yates The best true crime books to keep on your shelf Book cover of The Female Offender Book cover of Chicago's Awful Theatre Horror- by the Survivors and rescuers Book cover of Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing Them Book cover of Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Book cover of Body In Question: Exploring the Cutting Edge of Forensic Science
  • Katherine Ramsland The best nonfiction books about single-case serial murder investigations Book cover of The Sadist Book cover of The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science Book cover of The Holmes-Pitezel: Case a History of the Greatest Crime of the Century and of the Search for the Missing Pitezel Children Book cover of The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting" Book cover of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
  • Cory Richards The best books on mental health & the stories we tell that keep us sick Book cover of The Power of Myth Book cover of The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Book cover of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Book cover of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Arun Kundnani The best books on racism in Britain Book cover of Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order Book cover of Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism Book cover of The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain Book cover of Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism Book cover of New Racism: Conservatives and the Ideology of the Tribe
  • Mneesha Gellman The best books on college in US prisons Book cover of College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration Book cover of American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Book cover of Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison: Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall Book cover of Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls Book cover of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
  • Noah Charney The best books on art crime: theft, looting, and forgery Book cover of The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!: The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation Book cover of Context Matters: Collating the Past Book cover of Transnational Art Crime Book cover of The Secret Collector: The Lost Art Collection of Erich Šlomovič Book cover of Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession
  • 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
  • Sara Rosett The best undiscovered 1920s historical mysteries Book cover of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Book cover of Death in a Deck Chair Book cover of Nobody's Sweetheart Now Book cover of A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia Book cover of Come Hell or Highball
  • Peter A. Bamberger The best books on (mis)managing people at work Book cover of Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success Book cover of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Book cover of The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't Book cover of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind Book cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Amir Ahmadi Arian The best books to understand solitary confinement Book cover of In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Book cover of The American Notes Book cover of A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran Book cover of Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement Book cover of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives
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