Social Science - Criminology
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los AngelesFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. "A great many kids in my neighborhood don't plan their futures;...
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God's Not Here, Only Devils: Revelations from the Toolbox KillersThe District Attorney began his opening statement with, "If you don't know what hell is like, you're about to find out." In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris went on a rape and killing rampage. The pliers, screwdrivers, hammers, sledgehammers, and ice picks they...
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationA "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each year, more than half a million Americans are released...
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson MurdersIn the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A...
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GirlsIn the vein of the bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed...
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How Would You Rule?: Test Your Legal Wits Against the Law's Strangest CasesLearn the law by resolving real legal cases.How Would You Rule invites you to learn the law by challenging you to decide for yourself some of the law's most interesting and strangest cases.Test your legal wits and sharpen your legal judgment by figuring out...
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I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance RapeFeaturing a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing"Essential. . . . It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance...
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I Worked for God: A Criminal Investigator's Personal Story of Fighting True EvilExplore the journey of a young boy's transformation into a police officer, his brave fight against crime, and his commitment to protect his community in this riveting true crime narrative.In I Worked for God, the author takes readers on an intimate exploration of a...
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Illegal to Legal: Business Success For The (Formerly) Incarcerated"A superb, all-in-one business startup manual with the proper dose of motivational wisdom; uniquely targets an audience for whom options in life may often appear to be limited." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"The average drug dealer or criminal has the same business skills as the...
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In Cold BloodSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits...
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Inside Jobs: Prison Work in the Making of the American Labor MarketFrom the stone quarries of Sing Sing that supplied marble for early New York City landmarks, to twenty-first-century construction projects staffed by formerly incarcerated workers, Inside Jobs traces the relationship between prison work and the labor market over the past two hundred years. Sociologist...
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Inside the Criminal Mind (Newly Revised Edition)A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D. "Utterly compelling reading, full of...
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Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer: Reasons, Warning Signs, and a Prevention Game Plan for Parents and EducatorsPhil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen? What sends these kids over the edge? Could...
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Knock - KnockIn the fall of 2000, a veteran NYPD detective with a record of always catching the bad guy is tasked with tracking a serial rapist. But this is no ordinary criminal. This guy seems to be uncatchable, and something has to give.Knock-Knock is the...
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LAPD 2025: Beauty & GritStep into the world of the Los Angeles Police Department like never before with Beauty and Grit.This stunning visual narrative, showcasing the daily lives of our officers, was carefully crafted under the direction of the LAPD Boxing Team, which partnered with professional photographers.This compelling...
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Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal YouthA powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates. While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in...
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Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and PunishmentHow American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other How could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America's racialized political economy gives rise...
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Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal JusticeA searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America's poorest and most vulnerable communities. Alongside the rise of mass incarceration, a second profound and equally disturbing...
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Liberty's Prison: The Inmate's Son Who Radically Reformed an American PrisonCombination biography and call to justice, this book follows Randy Liberty's journey from maximum-security prison Warden to Maine's Commissioner of Corrections. When Randy Liberty was seven years old, he traveled to the Maine State Prison to visit his incarcerated father. Forty years later, he...
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Life Plus 16 Years: A True Story of Consequences, Redemption, and Coming HomeIn Life Plus 16 Years, Grady Morris Jr. recounts the pivotal moment at nineteen when a reckless decision led to another man's death, forever altering his life and the lives of many others. Sentenced to life plus sixteen years in a Tennessee prison, Grady...
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