Criminal Justice/Law

Race to Incarcerate

A Graphic Retelling

Sabrina Jones, Marc Mauer

Paperback Original: Marc Mauer’s landmark book on race, class, and the criminal justice system adapted as a work of inspired graphic storytelling by Sabrina Jones

The Last Gun

How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It

Tom Diaz

From the influential gun control advocate and author, a startling new analysis of guns and gun violence—in a book that shows the path to a safer future

Chasing Gideon

The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

Karen Houppert

On the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, veteran journalist Karen Houppert investigates the way justice is delivered to the poor—and discovers a crisis in our nation’s courts

Kids for Cash

Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

William Ecenbarger

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, a gripping work of true crime about the Pennsylvania case in which judges in a rural county took cash payments for sending children to a privatized juvenile detention facility

Blind Goddess

A Reader on Race and Justice

Edited by Alexander Papachristou

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A cutting-edge collection exposing the insidious role that race continues to play throughout the U.S. criminal justice system, by today’s leading reformers in the field

A Plague of Prisons

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Ernest Drucker

A paradigm-shifting look at our criminal justice system that sees prisons as the problem, not the solution

Framing Innocence

A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response

Lynn Powell

NOW IN PAPERBACK: The unforgettable story of how innocent photographs by a mother of her child became the heart of a wrenching legal battle that galvanized a small town to fight for justice, hailed by Booklist as “Fascinating . . . immediate and compelling”


The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

Available January 2012 in paperback! The "explosive debut" (Kirkus) from a rising legal star in America arguing that we have not ended racial caste in America—we have simply redesigned it

Let's Get Free

A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

Paul Butler

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book Library Journal calls “required reading for all concerned about their neighborhoods and our criminal justice system,” a former federal prosecutor’s radical argument for reform

The Wrong Guys

Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo

A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an innocence project case

Critical Race Realism

Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

Edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi

A new way of looking at our legal system-focused on the nexus of social science, race and the law – that takes the field of critical legal studies into the twenty-first century

Prison Profiteers

Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening and troubling look at the vast network of corporations and individuals that turn a profit by keeping 2.4 million Americans imprisoned

Law Lit

From Atticus Finch to The Practice

Edited by Thane Rosenbaum

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The collection of fiction and poetry that Christopher Buckley called "a brilliant compendium of writing about the law, by one of the coolest, hippest, and smartest legal brains in the business"

See You in Court

How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

Thomas Geoghegan

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007—a bold new argument that conservative policy has led to America's lawsuit culture, from the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist

Less Safe, Less Free

Why America Is Losing the War on Terror

David Cole, Jules Lobel

NOW IN PAPERBACK — Winner of the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties prize, the book Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "a timely and unsparing exposure of the disastrous consequences of the 'war on terror' demagogy of the Bush administration"

All Alone in the World

Children of the Incarcerated

Nell Bernstein

NOW IN PAPERBACK An award-winning journalist’s “heart wrenching”(The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison—a Newsweek “book of the week” and an East Bay Express bestseller

The Big Eddy Club

The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice

David Rose

Now in paperback: A "dazzlingly reported, supremely elegant" (The Observer) exposé of race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge—now with an important update

Crimes Against Humanity

The Struggle for Global Justice

Geoffrey Robertson

The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition

Conspiracy in the Streets

The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

Edited by Jon Wiener

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s

Conned

How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House

Sasha Abramsky

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens

Enemy Aliens

Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

David Cole

A revised edition of the award-winning civil liberties scholar's condemnation of the USA Patriot Act

Good Courts

The Case for Problem-Solving Justice

Greg Berman, John Feinblatt

How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts

In Time of War

Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

Pierce O'Donnell

A forgotten episode of World War II, the Supreme Court case it sparked, and the precedent it set

A Matter of Law

A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

Robert L. Carter

A major new memoir by the man who argued Brown v. Board

Good Cops

The Case for Preventive Policing

David A. Harris

A new, preventive approach to reducing crime from the renowned expert on policing

Guantánamo

The War on Human Rights

David Rose

NOW IN PAPERBACK A vivid and damning account of America's controversial interrogation camp

Brown v. Board

The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

Edited by Leon Friedman

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)

The Autonomy Myth

A Theory of Dependency

Martha Albertson Fineman

A brilliant exposé of the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society

Invisible Punishment

The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind

A wide-ranging look at the true cost to society of our current approach to criminal justice, from the nation's foremost criminologist

Lost Liberties

Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom

Edited by Cynthia Brown

Essays on various aspects of the Ashcroft Justice Department’s threat to civil liberties in the wake of September 11, featuring a long list of ACLU and OSI-style luminaries.

Bombs and Bandwidth

The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

Edited by Robert Latham

Information Feudalism

Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite

NOW IN PAPERBACK The definitive account of how multinational corporations have seized control of intellectual property rights

A Badly Flawed Election

Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

Edited by Ronald Dworkin

America's leading constitutional scholars and historians debate the most controversial election in U.S. history

Terrorism and the Constitution

Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

David Cole, James X. Dempsey

Timely and important. . . . This is a book every citizen should read and act upon.   —Political Science Quarterly

In America’s Court

How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial
The smart, funny, and compelling story of criminal justice and the injustice from the author of Which Side Are You On?

Movies on Trial

The Legal System on the Silver Screen

Anthony Chase

An absorbing and unexpected analysis of the way popular films influence our view of the law. 

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You

The Case for Banning Handguns

Josh Sugarmann

NOW IN PAPERBACK a powerful argument for banning handguns that “should be required reading for those who want to be better informed—whether they are for or against gun control" (Publishers Weekly)

The Second Amendment in Law and History

Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

Edited by Carl T. Bogus

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms

Justice Talking: Censoring the Web

Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Justice Talking: School Vouchers

Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Zero Tolerance

Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

Edited by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers

A clear-eyed collection that takes aim at the replacement of teaching with punishment in America’s schools                              

Legal Lynching

The Death Penalty and America’s Future

Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr., Bruce Shapiro

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution

No Equal Justice

Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

David Cole

A tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning classic work on race- and class-based double standards in the law, completely revised and updated by the leading constitutional scholar                

The End of Privacy

How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

Reg Whitaker

Now in paperback, a sobering look at the threats to privacy posed by the new information technologies. 

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer

An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population

Not Only for Myself

Identity, Politics, and the Law

Martha Minow

A "moderate, judicious...look at identity politics" (Kirkus Reviews) by one of our leading legal thinkers.

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Now in paperback, "rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright.

Making a Killing

The Business Of Guns in America

Tom Diaz

A comprehensive exposé of the gun industry's efforts to increase profits by aggressively manufacturing and marketing more lethal and concealable guns.

Ethics

Subjectivity and Truth

Michel Foucault

Edited by Paul Rabinow

The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars.

Black Judges on Justice

Perspectives from the Bench

Linn Washington

McLibel

Burger Culture on Trial

John Vidal

Two environmentalists take on a multinational, multibillion-dollar-a-year corporation.

Sensible Justice

Alternatives to Prison

David C. Anderson

Reasoned and practical alternatives to our current approach to incarceration.

Lawyers

A Critical Reader

Edited by Richard L. Abel

A groundbreaking collection of writing exploring the rapidly changing legal profession.

Edge of the Knife

Police Violence in the Americas

Paul Chevigny

The country's leading expert examines police brutality in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston, Jamaica

Critical Race Theory

The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

Edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas

The seminal texts on the interplay between law and race in America.

Greening International Law

Edited by Philippe Sands

A look at new international laws designed to control the environment.

May It Please the Court

Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton

PAPERBACK/CDS A new edition of the bestselling book-and-audio set of supreme court oral arguments—now available on MP3 audio CDs*

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy

A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars

Marjorie Heins

With Liberty and Justice for Some

A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court

David Kairys

A fascinating analysis of the changes brought about by the Reagan-Bush courts.

Family Matters

Readings on Family Lives and the Law

Edited by Martha Minow

A reader that addresses the gap between existing legistration on familial issues and family lives as they are really lived today.
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