Inside the Criminal Justice System
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,048 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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Kristin Henning
4.56 avg rating — 435 ratings 
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
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Radley Balko
4.03 avg rating — 5,039 ratings 6. 
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings 
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Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice
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David Feige
3.97 avg rating — 392 ratings 
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
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Colin Kaepernick
4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings 
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham
3.86 avg rating — 82,849 ratings 13. 
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings 17. 
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
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John F. Pfaff
4.06 avg rating — 850 ratings 
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice
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Jean Trounstine
3.55 avg rating — 64 ratings 24. 
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
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Scott Turow
3.84 avg rating — 750 ratings 
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Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works...and Sometimes Doesn't
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Mark Geragos
3.80 avg rating — 335 ratings 28. 
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
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Joe Domanick
3.89 avg rating — 169 ratings 28. 
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Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health
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Ernest Drucker
4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings 28. 
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
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Jesse Eisinger
3.79 avg rating — 1,876 ratings 28. 
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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Radley Balko
4.32 avg rating — 3,972 ratings 28. 
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice
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Curtis Elmore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 28. 
Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
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Efrem Sigel
3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings 28. 
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Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
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David R. Dow
4.22 avg rating — 123 ratings 42. 
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
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Jeffrey Toobin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,553 ratings 42. 
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
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Barry Scheck
4.15 avg rating — 899 ratings 42. 
Injustice for All: America's Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System and How to Fix It 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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Albert Woodfox
4.42 avg rating — 4,018 ratings 42. 
Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
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Andrea D. Lyon
4.06 avg rating — 720 ratings 
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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T.J. English
3.95 avg rating — 1,506 ratings 48. 
Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner
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Donald A. Cabana
4.01 avg rating — 96 ratings 
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail
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Susan McDougal
3.96 avg rating — 110 ratings 53. 
Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
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Danielle Sered
4.44 avg rating — 1,018 ratings 53. 
From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
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Bernard B. Kerik
3.67 avg rating — 255 ratings 
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Art of Justice: An Eyewitness View of Thirty Infamous Trials
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Marilyn Church
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 58. 
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
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Michael Cannell
3.83 avg rating — 1,152 ratings 58. 
Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
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Ronald Markman
3.95 avg rating — 421 ratings 
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Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America's Prisons
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Gaye D. Holman
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings 64. 
Fugitive Man: Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most 4.16 avg rating — 212 ratings
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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Mariame Kaba
4.64 avg rating — 5,802 ratings 69. 
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King 4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
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Steve Bogira
3.97 avg rating — 1,686 ratings 72. 
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
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Laura Caldwell
3.93 avg rating — 466 ratings 
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Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
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Alison Flowers
4.15 avg rating — 98 ratings 80. 
Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case (Fire Ant Books)
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Frank Sikora
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 82. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings 82. 
Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
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Anne Stefani
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 84. 
The Story Of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City
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Justin Nobel
4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings 85. 
Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
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Edward Humes
4.01 avg rating — 968 ratings 86. 
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
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Wesley Lowery
4.04 avg rating — 4,037 ratings 87. 
The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
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Malcolm Bell
4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings 88. 
Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
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Joan Biskupic
3.67 avg rating — 255 ratings 89. 
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror 3.62 avg rating — 117 ratings
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
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Evan Mandery
4.11 avg rating — 167 ratings 93. 
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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Glenn Greenwald
4.26 avg rating — 1,310 ratings 94. 
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
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Kay Whitlock
3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings 95. 
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
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Linda Greenhouse
4.11 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 96. 
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
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Lisa Bloom
4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings 
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
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Laurence Leamer
4.18 avg rating — 422 ratings 100. 
The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book, Featuring the Justices in their Own Words (C-Span Books)
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Brian Lamb
3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings