Criminal Justice: New Books 2021-22

Takes the reader inside the interrogation room and inside the courtroom to expose the interrogators' tricks, the prosecutors' ploys, and the judicial sleight involved in a false imprisonment. The book also discusses possible reforms.

Examines sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms

Examines two opposing movements that redefined Arizona’s political landscape: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his supporters, who was one of the most relentless and feared enforcers of Trump’s immigration policies, and the Latino-led opponents who organized against Arpaio’s institutionalized racism.

Reveals the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control and shows how it is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice--even public safety.

Offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation

Argues for a new understanding of proportionality in undercover policing that takes account of innocent parties, vulnerable targets, and manipulation into wrongful action. He also defends a central role for the judiciary in the oversight of undercover policing.

Demonstrates how biological and psychological findings can be responsibly combined with social theories to form a unifying framework and lend new insights into criminal and antisocial behavior.

A comprehensive and accurate overview of the practical application of forensic science in crime scene investigation.

Scholarly collection that brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health arena.

This second edition examines broad systems of inequality in our society—how they’re structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change.

Exposes how many alternatives to incarceration actually increase social control and replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

Examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait of inequality and injustice within and beyond the criminal courts.

Examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system, Iincluding issues ranging from historical heterosexist and transphobic legislation to police brutality to the prison industrial complex to family law. .

An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns

Argues that Americans must undergo a conscious cultural redefinition of American civic order in order to pass effective laws or public policy to reduce gun violence in general and public mass shootings in particular.

Draws on original interviews, court documents, statistical data, and media reports, to provide a comprehensive account of how federal intervention combats misconduct in American police departments.

Argues state agencies circulate people between different institutional spaces in such a way that generates revenue for some agencies, cuts costs for others, and increases suffering for poor people of color.

Minute-by-minute account of crisis negotiations with a young man who killed and wounded police officers during a protest march in Dallas in 2016.

"A riveting and infuriating examination of criminal prosecutions, revealing how easy it is to convict the wrong person and how nearly impossible it is to undo the error." --Washington Post

Citing both foundational and newly-introduced conviction research, Johnson provides valuable new perspectives and insight.