Criminology
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco’s underworld in al… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254084
- Language: English
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narra… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1451645171
- Language: English
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The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News
$21.95 Read moreA groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate
In The Trauma Beat, an ey
- Author: Cherry, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1770416862
- Language: English
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I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing
“Essential. . . . It
- Author: Warshaw, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 006284430X
- Language: English
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartA powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982154446
- Language: English
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
$68.68 Add to cartInnocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo.
Praise fr
- Author: Fabricant, M. Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1636140300
- Language: English
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The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “unmissable book” (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.
- Author: Adshead, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982134801
- Language: English
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
$19.99 Add to cartA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After tw- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774051
- Language: English
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
$21.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson prote… [more below]
- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1541774531
- Language: English
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Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
$28.99 Add to cartDoes the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first pub
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0836199472
- Language: English
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Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons
$27.00 Add to cartEdited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.
Abolition for the Pe
- Author: Kaepernick, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1595911162
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
$22.00 Add to cartPassionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence.
Why do some kids from good- Author: Raine, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0307475611
- Language: English
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The Crime Book
$21.99 Add to cartLearn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow f… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028507
- Language: English
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Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight (2nd Edition)
$23.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684428556
- Language: English
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Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons
$19.95 Add to cartEdited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.
Abolition for the Pe- Author: Kaepernick, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599638
- Language: English
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Imprisoned by Fear: A true, tragic story of teens, drugs, burglaries and a homeowner’s fear of death by his own guns
$18.95 Add to cartByron Smith moved back to his family home in Little Falls, Minnesota, to care for his elderly mother and enjoy a quiet retirement from the US State Department. On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Byron shot and
- Author: Lange, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1646543157
- Language: English
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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
$33.82 Add to cartIn Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims’ rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head o
- Author: Anderson, Lenore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977125
- Language: English
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Beware The Mind Hustler: Identifying Self-Destructive Thoughts and Distractions
$14.95 Add to cartBeware The Mind Hustler: Identifying Self-Destructive Thoughts And Distractions was written to help readers who are trying to rebuild their lives overcome The Mind Hustler’s relentless pull to return
- Author: Wyatt, Alfonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0998256625
- Language: English
