Sentencing
-
The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System
$39.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights.
This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers,
- Author: Bergman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1413331475
- Language: English
-
Hope to Win – Prepare to Loose: and change the law along the way
$24.95 Add to cartCombines an introduction to law and an examination of constitutional principles at the core of the American justice system as viewed by an experienced trial attorney for aspiring young lawyers. Employ
- Author: Summers, Jerry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1947589555
- Language: English
-
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX – A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our br… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 081298496X
- Language: English
-
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
$29.99 Add to cartNYT EDITOR’S CHOICE – WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 – FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American crim
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250758807
- Language: English
-
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$28.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162428
- Language: English
-
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
$19.99 Add to cartNYT EDITOR’S CHOICE – Peabody Award finalist – National Headliner Award winner – WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 – Shortlisted for the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Award – FROM THE CRITICALLY
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250758823
- Language: English
-
Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller’s Reign of Terror
$22.99 Add to cartWill A Serial Killer Soon Walk The Streets Again?
Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent graduate of
- Author: Sadler, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1952225272
- Language: English
-
The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System
$39.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights.
The Criminal Law Handbook demystifies the criminal justice system for non-lawyers. It explains–in plain English–how the crim
- Author: Bergman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1413333176
- Language: English
-
Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer … [more below]
- Author: Harpootlian, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0806542888
- Language: English
-
Something Big: The True Story of the Brown’s Chicken Massacre, a Decade-Long Manhunt, and the Trials That Followed
$18.99 Add to cartSomething Big tells the story of the infamous Brown’s Chicken massacre, a brutal case that captivated Chicagoland after remaining unsolved for nearly a decade.
Customers know Brown’s Chicken for its c- Author: Wohl, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888459003
- Language: English
-
The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die with Dignity
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting account of one death row inmate’s quest to die–and a fearless look at how America’s system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve.
When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s de- Author: Toboni, Gianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668033011
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
