Criminal Law
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Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
$17.00 Read moreFrom a prominent criminal law professor, a provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it.
When Americans think of the criminal- Author: Byrne Hessick, Carissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1419750305
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre
$16.99 Read moreIn the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s memoir, The Devil’s Defender, recounts his tortuous education … [more below]
- Author: Browne, John Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777672
- Language: English
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Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
$18.95 Read moreIn this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as t
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022108
- Language: English
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The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels
$22.95 Read moreThe Quebec-chartered “Nomad” chapter of the Hells Angels had two specific goals: to monopolize the Quebec drug trade; and to expand that trade across other parts of Canada. Their war against rival dea… [more below]
- Author: Cherry, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: January 05 2006
- ISBN10: 155022638X
- Language: English
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A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
$20.00 Read moreLOS 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 … [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Brittany K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1984825801
- Language: English
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas–and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America
“If you’re one of those people w- Author: Chammah, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1524760285
- Language: English
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The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial
$24.95 Add to cartJustice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes.
- Series: True Crime History
- Author: James, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353942
- Language: English
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Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration
$20.98 Read moreA riveting primer on the growing trend of surveillance, monitoring, and control that is extending our prison system beyond physical walls and into a dark future–by the prize-winning author of Underst
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976145
- Language: English
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Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
$18.00 Read moreThe FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.
“R- Author: Noesner, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525511288
- Language: English
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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
$18.95 Read moreThe “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1619021552
- Language: English
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Law & Disorder: How a Kid from the Bronx Became America’s Top Drug Prosecutor
$18.95 Read moreThis is the real stuff. It’s about the people who make the decisions on how cases are handled, the different units and bureaus in the prosecutor’s office, and takes the reader into “the room where it … [more below]
- Author: Silbering, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1608082962
- Language: English
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The Defense Lawyer
$18.99 Read moreFrom a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz–and won every single case.
Known for his sharp mind, sh- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1538703629
- Language: English
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The Harm in Hate Speech
$23.00 Read moreEvery liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech–except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Agai
- Series: Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures #10
- Author: Waldron, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0674416864
- Language: English
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Baptized by Fire: My Personal Experiences, Career, and Adventures in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
$26.95 Add to cartThis book is a compilation of my personal adventures, experiences, and memories in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The reader will experience through my eyes what a career in law enforcem
- Author: Rolman, Patricio Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893151787
- Language: English
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Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr- Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059342008X
- Language: English
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The Incarceration Explosion: We Must Do Better
$28.99 Add to cartIn The Incarceration Explosion, Michael Wing and Victoria Junkins expose the harsh realities of America’s sprawling prison system. With millions incarcerated, the authors confront the dire consequence
- Author: Wing, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1959099957
- Language: English
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A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It
$27.99 Add to cartA sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences
Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner
- Author: Block, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978873
- Language: English
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang
life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth
portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigati… [more below]- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163327
- Language: English
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Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award-win… [more below]
- Author: Jayadev, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977001
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 Add to cartThe award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of v
- Author: Sered, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
