Criminal Justice: New Books 2018-19

Explains how U.S. laws and practices treat every African American man like a criminal and work to make citizens afraid of black men.

Reflects on the origins of Queer Criminology, surveys the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offers suggestions for the future.

A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.

examines the lives of the formerly incarcerated and demonstrates how poverty, racial inequality, and failures of social support trap many in a cycle of vulnerability.

Provides a comprehensive statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment system.

Documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated during routine traffic stops.

Illustrates the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans and a series of policy choices that expanded the government's power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence.

Recommends structural, procedural, and attitudinal changes aimed at restoring justice to the criminal justice system.

Demonstrates the importance of confronting and addressing the traumatic legacy of Klan racism in the South.

Explore the philosophiy, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study.

Explores the various legal and ideological forces shaping juvenile prison and prison schooling, and examines how these forces are mechanized across multiple state apparatuses, not least school.

Present a thorough and refreshingly ideology-free cost-benefit analysis of how to cut mass incarceration while maintaining public safety.

Demonstrates how risk terrain modeling can be extended to provide a comprehensive view of prevention and deterrence.

Explores the capacity of stories to direct our thinking, heighten our emotions, and thereby motivate people to do harm to others and to tolerate harm done by others.

Ooffers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency.

Drawing on literature from criminology, community psychology, and prevention science this book describes the conditions and actions necessary for effective community-based prevention.

Examines why we've cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons.

Civilizing Torture reveals the recurring struggle to decide what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state.

Focuses on LGBTQ communities' patterns of offending (beyond sex work) and their experiences with police, the courts, and correctional institutions.

A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoods

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offenses

As we enter a time period in which police interactions are recorded (dash cams or body cams, for example) and new populations are being targeted (Latinx people), there is much to learn about what is working and what is not.

Examines the role gender plasy in crime, and in the criminal justice system from the perspective of the offender, the victim, the community, and the overall justice system.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

Unravels a mysterious and still unsolved case that sucked Michigan State Police and local officials into a morass of perjury and cover-up and led to the separate conviction and imprisonment of five innocent men.

Examines the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse.

Alcoff has written a book that will revolutionize the way we think about rape, finally putting the survivor center stage.

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly stigmatizes the poor and people of cover as criminals, impoverishes them through fines and fees, and strips them of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the first study to use publicly available data to reveal the context in which an officer used deadly force against an unarmed citizen.

Presents a collective analysis and review of the existing challenges as well as directions for state-of-the-art practices found in diverse forensic settings.