Criminology
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Neighborhood Watch: Policing White Spaces in America
$32.00 Add to cartAlthough racism has plagued the American justice system since the nation’s colonial beginnings, private White Americans are taking matters into their own hands. From racist 911 calls and hoaxes to gra… [more below]
- Author: Fields, Shawn E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1108793509
- Language: English
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#Metoo and the Politics of Social Change
$37.99 Add to cart#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-se
- Author: Fileborn, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 303015212X
- Language: English
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We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
$39.00 Add to cartA brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety of children.
During the- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1610392876
- Language: English
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
$23.93 Add to cartThe story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account…a tale of terr… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Cowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 156663217X
- Language: English
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What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
$24.00 Add to cartA decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.
“Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible–from the level of th
- Author: Nunn, Dorsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146323
- Language: English
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Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their h… [more below]
- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 042527697X
- Language: English
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The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring
$19.99 Add to cartSince 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months “hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 22 1990
- ISBN10: 0201570033
- Language: English
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
$34.99 Add to cartThe scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, a… [more below]
- Author: Brayne, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190684097
- Language: English
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What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
$31.48 Read more“This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.” –from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson
A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America’s cr
- Author: Nixon, Vivian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975297
- Language: English
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Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer
$17.99 Add to cartPhil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking:
- Why do the crimes continue
- Author: Chalmers, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1595559779
- Language: English
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Dr. Henry Lee’s Forensic Files: Five Famous Cases Scott Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, and more…
$25.99 Add to cartDr. Henry C. Lee is considered by many to be the greatest forensic scientist in the world. His vast investigative experience (over 6,000 cases!) and participation in many high-profile trials have earn… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Henry C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1591024099
- Language: English
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On Dope: Drug Enforcement and The First Policeman
$25.95 Add to cartOn Dope is a fierce and scholarly polemic in defense of America’s current global efforts to control the use and trafficking of illegal drugs. With blistering evidence, the book indicts both a polluted… [more below]
- Author: Stamm, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1478751452
- Language: English
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The Dedicated Ex-Prisoner’s Guide for Getting Through the Halfway House: 10 Things to Do to Make Your Rehabilitative Stay Short, Productive, & Profita
$10.00 Add to cartEvery year, thousands of prisoners get released from jails and prisons into halfway houses, with a large percentage of them being sent back to lockup for violating rules or procedures. Halfway houses
- Author: Bovan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0979295386
- Language: English
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Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
$20.00 Add to cartDrawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others bu… [more below]
- Author: Gilligan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679779124
- Language: English
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I, Monster: Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words
$19.00 Add to cartWhat goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the “BTK Killer”), and others? In this chilling … [more below]
- Author: Philbin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616141638
- Language: English
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Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
$26.93 Add to cartMonique Villa shows us the world of slaves–no longer physically in chains–who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Her moving book, giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, vi
- Author: Villa, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538180456
- Language: English
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Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight (2nd Edition)
$36.99 Add to cartThis updated edition of Dr. Travis Langley’s beloved Batman and Psychology takes readers into the psyches of Batman and the characters of Gotham City-exploring what makes them tick, and why they have
- Series: Popular Culture Psychology
- Author: Langley, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684428564
- Language: English
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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration–and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
Marlon Peterson grew up in- Author: Peterson, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036529
- Language: English
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Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
$43.93 Add to cartSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.
- Author: Dekeseredy, Walter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1487547102
- Language: English
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I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
$19.99 Add to cartAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last 45 years.
He is the law – and you b- Author: Molcher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1786185709
- Language: English
