Guides: Criminal Justice: New Books 2024-25

New Books

American Gun by Cameron McWhirter
Call Number: TS 536.6 .S46 M39 2023

Presents the epic history of the AR-15 (M16) rifle from the 1950s as standard equipment in Vietnam to its involvement in mass shootings in the 2000s prompting widespread calls for proscription even as the gun industry embraced it as a financial savior
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Forensic Sciences by Zeno Geradts
Call Number: HV 8078.7 .A77 2024

Explores the use of AI in forensic science and issues of possible bias and the challenges of the legal presentation and interpretation of AI data.
Copycat Crime by Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Call Number: HV 6080 .H4197 2023

Explores the new phenomena of copycat crime inspired by nonstop, instant global news coverage of crime, violence, terrorism, and murder on 24-hour television, the internet, social media, and video games.
Crime in TV, the News, and Film by Beth E. Adubato
Call Number: P 96 .C74 A33 2022

Combines field experience with criminological research to show how everyday media operations can produce people's views on crime and profoundly influence public opinion and public policy.
The Cyber Predators by Aaron Cohen
Call Number: HV 6773 .C634 2024

Navigating through diverse digital realms--from social media addiction to cyberbullying, hacking, and workplace deviance--this book unravels the complex interplay between dark triad/tetrad personalities and cyber misconduct.
The Danger Imperative by Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Call Number: HV 8141 .S533 2024

. A trailblazing, on-the-ground account of modern policing, this book shows that violence is the logical consequence of an institutional culture that privileges officer survival over public safety.
Dismantling Mass Incarceration by Premal Dharia
Call Number: HV 9471 .D58 2024

Provides tools to move from despair and critique to hope and action by exploring bold but practical interventions involving police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, prisons, and even life after prison.
The Future of Evidence-Based Policing by David Weisburd
Call Number: HV 7921 .F888 2023

Provides a history of Evidence-based policing (EBP), comparative and international contributions, barriers and emerging trends. Critically examines ethical and moral concerns and questions.
In This Place Called Prison by Rachel Ellis
Call Number: HV 8738 .E44 2023

Uses the stories of incarcerated women, staff and volunteers at a U.S. state women’s prison to show how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control.
Inside Knowledge by Doran Larson
Call Number: HV 9471 .L37 2024

Drawing from the writings of incarcerated people collected in the American Prison Writing Archive, Doran Larson argues that America’s prisons fail in their cardinal missions of rehabilitation, containment, deterrence and meaningful retribution.
Killer Data by Eric Hickey
Call Number: HV 6515 .Y35 2022

Explores how to use data tools and the Consolidated Serial Homicide Offender Database, one of the largest and most robust open access databases of multiple murders available, in practice.
The Marvelous Ones by Randol Contreras
Call Number: HV 6439 .U7 E2254 2024

Once celebrated in the gang world as rebels who defied the established prison order, veterano Maravilla gang members now grapple with the consequences of leading violent and drug-ridden lives in a rapidly changing East Los Angeles.
The Politics of Crime Prevention by Kevin H. Wozniak
Call Number: HV 7432 .W69 2023

Examines American public opinion about crime prevention in the twenty-first century with a particular focus on how average citizens would choose to prioritize resources between the criminal justice system and community-based institutions.
Pot for Profit by Joseph Mello
Call Number: KF 3891 .M2 M45 2024

Traces the cultural, historical, political, and legal roots of these changing attitudes towards cannabis. Mello argues that approaching cannabis reform from a profit perspective has problematic economic and racial implications.
The Power of the Badge by Emily M. Farris; Mirya R. Holman
Call Number: HV 7979 .F37 2024

Explores how U.S. sheriffs wield broad authority and autonomy to set and administer policies, use employees and budgets for political gains, and imprison, harm, and even kill members of marginalized communities.
Silent Witness by Henry Erlich
Call Number: RA 1057.55 .S55 2020

Relates the history and development of modern DNA forensics and its application in the courtroom and humanitarian settings. Explores the need to balance the the use of genetics to solve crime with privacy rights and freedom from unwarranted government scrutiny.
Slow and Sudden Violence by Derek Hyra
Call Number: HT 177 .F4 H973 2024

Derek Hyra uses the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore to show how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities

New eBooks

Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science by Robin T. Bowen
Examines investigator and police culture through the lens of professional challenges and presents examples of what to do, and what not to do, when faced with ethical decisions in gathering, handling, analyzing, and presenting evidence.
Leading Edge Techniques in Forensic Trace Evidence Analysis by Robert D. Blackledge (Editor)
Explores modern methodologies, tools, techniques, and evidence types in trace evidence forensics, along with practical guidance on implementation
The Migrant's Jail by Brianna Nofil
Examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world's largest system of migrant incarceration.
Policing Distracted Driving by Leanne Savigar-Shaw; Helen Wells
Draws on original research and existing theoretical perspectives and frameworks to critically examine the role of roads policing and its place within the wider field of policing.
Punishment in International Society by Wolfgang Wagner
Examines penal philosophies and practices around the globe to discover the international normative order, its structures, and hierarchies. Compares the global North’s emphasis on individualized, retributive punishment versus the reparations of the global South.
Urban Gun Violence by Melvin Delgado
Analyzes research in ecologically-focused interventions for social problems and offers urban green revitalization strategies for combating gun violence that impacts American/Black, Asian-American, and Latinx urban communities.

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