Subject: Corrections/Criminal Justice
When Truth Is All You Have
Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would transform his life. A former management consultant, McCloskey had grown disenchanted […]
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The New Jim Crow
Since The New Jim Crow was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide […]
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Nobody’s Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
When a three-year-old child was found with a head wound and other injuries, it looked like an open-and-shut case of second-degree murder. Psychologist and attorney […]
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Issues and controversies in policing today
In each chapter of Issues and Controversies in Policing Today, author Johnny Nhan explores a provocative issue sure to spark classroom discussion. Grounding each topic […]
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Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of […]
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What set me free: a true story of wrongful conviction, a dream deferred, and a man redeemed
At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior–and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a […]
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Prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world among major nations not because of expert assessments of how to tackle crime, but because of […]
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Reading behind bars: a true story of literature, law, and life as a prison librarian
In December 2008, twenty-something Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But […]
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A grip of time: when prison is your life
A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about–a maximum-security prison–and into […]
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From asylum to prison: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal. A widely […]
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