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Recommended Books
Below are some books that we recommend. If you have any
suggestions for books to add to our list, please contact us.
Race to Incarcerate
by Marc Mauer
This race-and class-based analysis of the trends in American criminal justice policy
shows how the war on drugs exercised rigid control over drug treatment and economic
development, and tells the chilling story behind the unprecedented explosion of African
American populations in U.S. prisons during the last twenty-five years.
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Crime and Punishment in American History
by Lawrence Meir Friedman
A panoramic history of our criminal justice system
from Colonial times to today. Crime and Punishment in American History
scans our nation’s struggle with crime, from the colonial days, when adultery
could get one hanged, to the advent of a police forces and penitentiaries in the
19th century; from prohibition and lynch mobs to the due process advances of the
Warren Court. The overview continues up to what the author calls today’s
crimes of self…expression.
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 Crime
and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America’s Most Stubborn Social
Crisis Have Not Worked — And What Will
by Elliott Currie
Exposes the faulty reasoning,
dishonest statistics and propaganda used to justify America’s harsh,
expensive, and misdirected criminal justice policies. Currie proposes sane
strategies that would reduce violent crime without bankrupting the nation,
ripping up its social fabric, or turning it over to the penal-industrial
complex." --Michael B. Katz, author of Improving Poor People
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Now!
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Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court
by William Ayers
"This book should be required reading for the 286
members of the House of Representatives who, in early May, voted to spend $1.5
billion more on punishment without rehabilitation for the serious offenders
among the 2.7 million young people who are arrested every year" --Los
Angeles Times Book Review
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Spite of Innocence
by Hugo Bedau, Constance E. Putnam, and Michael L. Radelet
"In a book
that reads like a suspense novel, [the authors] recount dozens of cases in which
an innocent person became trapped in the cogs of the justice system…[and]
found himself on death row." --Mario Szichman, Associated Press
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 Death
at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner
by Donald A. Cabana
"Death at Midnight is a compelling
personal account of the experiences that impel a lifelong corrections official
and death penalty supporter, to bear witness to the inevitable inhumanity and
injustice of capital punishment."--Nadine Strossen, President ACLU
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Now!
 Criminal
Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis
by Elihu Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt's Criminal Injustice: Confronting
the Prision Crisis includes chapters on such topics as "The
Criminalization of Poverty" and "The Politics of Super
Incarceration". A must have for anyone interested the fundamental
ideas behind radical criminal justice reform.
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 Search
and Destroy : African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
by Jerome G. Miller
The
war on drugs has created an explosion in the American prison population, with
the number of prison inmates now threatening to exceed the number of students
attending college. In Search and Destroy, Jerome Miller describes the
racial bias which exists against African-American males between the ages of 18
and 35 in virtually all aspects of the American criminal justice system. Buy
Now!
Superpredators : The Demonization of Our Children by the Law
by Peter Elikann Superpredators:
The Demonization of Our Children by the Law persuasively argues that
children are not born to become "superpredators" who wreak havoc on
society. Superpredators fiercely champions these littlest individuals and, in
fact, adopts an optimistic note - that youth crime will continue to drop as long
as we invest in our children with proven policies and ethics for living and
interacting. We must reevaluate the family unit and bring adults, mentors, and
role models into the lives of our children.
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