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The best criminal justice books
From The Marshall Project, here is their picks for the best criminal justice books of 2017.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/books?list=2
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
The Chickenshit Club digs into prosecutorial underreach — the failure to prosecute bankers and other executives after the collapse of the housing bubble.
A Colony in a Nation
Interweaving on-the-ground reporting from Ferguson and Baltimore, stories from his Bronx childhood at the height of the crack epidemic, and diversions into U.S. history, journalist and cable news host Chris Hayes argues that we don’t have a single broken criminal justice system but “two distinct regimes”: a Nation and a Colony.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
This remarkable book traces how racially based governmental housing policies led to the segregation of American cities….
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Journalist David Grann spins an infuriating, true tale that’s almost stranger than fiction. He breathes urgent life into a century-old story about race, greed and the tragic transformation of the American West. This riveting puzzler charts the evolution of U.S. law enforcement, from small teams of frontier lawmen and private detectives to the early days of the FBI when J. Edgar Hoover was “boyish.”
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
But he makes a good case that the conventional view overlooks a main culprit: prosecutors, and the incentives that steer them toward maximum sentences.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Among her themes are the lawlessness with which this country treats the deaths of black people, as well as the ways in which going to visit a loved one in prison can be about proving that the person is even real. Most of all, Ward shows us that people who are addicted to drugs, violent, and imprisoned can be understood and spoken of in mythic, Faulknerian terms.
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Friedman, a professor at New York University School of Law, looks at the many ways the Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” has been ignored or stretched in the name of public safety.
When Police Kill
This book is essentially a 300-page riff on a single statistic: Roughly 1,000 Americans die each year at the hands of the police. Zimring, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School, points to several remarkable things about that number. First, it is about double the official counts by agencies of the Justice Department, an extraordinary margin of error for something so important.
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