Subject: Corrections/Criminal Justice
Punishment without crime: how our massive misdemeanor system traps the innocent and makes America more unequal
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on […]
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The meaning of life: the case for abolishing life sentences
Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue that there is no practical or moral justification for a sentence longer than twenty years. […]
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Homeward: life in the year after prison
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments […]
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Anatomy of a false confession: the interrogation and conviction of Brendan Dassey
Anatomy of a False Confession takes the reader inside the interrogation room and inside the courtroom to expose the interrogators’ tricks, the prosecutors’ ploys, and […]
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Unusually cruel: prisons, punishment, and the real American exceptionalism
The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, […]
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Intellectual disability and the death penalty: current issues and controversies
[This] book documents the legal and clinical aspects of the issues related to intellectual disability and the death penalty. [The book]: provides a comprehensive review […]
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Inside private prisons: an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration
When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a […]
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American exceptionalism in crime and punishment
Across the U.S., there was an explosion of severity in nearly every form of governmental response to crime from the 1970s through the 2000s. This […]
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Incendiary: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall — for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters […]
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The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America’s law enforcement
Matthew Horace was a law enforcement officer at the federal and local levels for twenty-eight years, working in nearly every state in the country. Yet […]
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