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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions-culminating in Brown v. Plata, decided in May 2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court-that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of 'tough on crime' politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and, ultimately, lead to the demise of mass incarceration. This book offers a provocative and brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Bolden, an Agate imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that system continues to see black men as targets-and as dollar signs. The book provides practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with specific legal situations:...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic...
Series
Truth in criminal justice volume report no. 4
Publisher
The Office
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives--either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"We all want to feel safe. But safe from what, and from whom? In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violated the law. Whether by covering up their own corrupt dealings, by the falsification or manufacture of evidence, or by the outright murder of innocent civilians, those individuals charged with upholding the law break it every day, in ways more...
Series
DHHS publication volume no. PEP19-MATUSECJS
Publisher
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience. A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving...
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Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young activist opens a window for young readers into his fight for equal education, racial justice, and economic equity. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Haitian immigrants, Frantzy Luzincourt has dedicated his life to service and the empowerment of youth voices. When he was fifteen, Frantzy became the founding president of his high school's Black Student Union, where he advocated for more Black male teachers and for bringing social justice into...
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Criminal justice is a dynamic field of study. Consider these challenges for instructors and students trying to keep pace with a field that is undergoing continual modification: the ever-evolving nature of crime, our changing understanding of justice, police--community relations in an age of social media, budgetary constraints, ongoing threats to our nation's security,newly enacted statutes, innovations in enforcement and justice-system technology,precedent-setting...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The child of an incarcerated father, Antong Lucky grew up in an impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood in East Dallas, Texas, born at the same time as East Dallas experienced an alarming rise in crack cocaine and heroin use. Despite his high grades and strong love for learning, Antong is introduced to gang life and its consequences when confronted by law enforcement. Antong eventually forms the Dallas Bloods gang, inaugurating a period in the 1990s...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.
Working with the Innocence Movement and Leigh Stubbs-a woman denied a fair trial largely due to her sexual orientation-a former federal prosecutor weaves Leigh's story through...