LibGuides: Political Science Reading Assignment: Criminal Justice and Law

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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: 353.48 ST481J
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
Black Against Empire - The Political History of the Black Panther Party by Waldo Martin
Call Number: 322.42 B623B
ISBN: 9780520271852
Publication Date: 2013-01-14
In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the U.S., the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. governm ...
War Letters: extraordinary correspondence from American wars by Andrew Carroll; Douglas Brinkley (Foreword by)
Call Number: 355 C236W
ISBN: 0743410068
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that ...
Addicted to Incarceration by Travis C. Pratt (Editor)
Call Number: 365.973 P889A
ISBN: 9780761928317
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to explore the consequences of what he terms America's "addiction to incarceration," highlighting the scope of the problem, the nature of the political discussions surrounding criminal justice policy in general and corrections policy in particular, and the social ...
Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Call Number: 958.1045 C683G
ISBN: 1594200076
Publication Date: 2004-02-23
Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert programme against Soviet troops from 1979-89, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts vy CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin La ...
Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
Call Number: 363.20973 B199R
ISBN: 9781610392112
Publication Date: 2013-07-09
The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America's cops have increasingly come to resemble ...

Criminal Justice

Addicted to incarceration: corrections policy and the politics of misinformation in the United States	365.973 P889A
After the crime: the power of restorative justice dialogues between victims and violent offenders	364.68 M618A
Against all enemies: inside America's war on terror	363.325 C556A
Against security: how we go wrong at airports, subways and other sites of ambiguous danger	363.325 M738A
American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island: red power and self-determination	365.9794 J637A
Back from war: finding hope & understanding in life after combat	959.7043 AL54B 2007
Beauty bias: the injustice of appearance in life and law	346.7301 R346B
Black against empire: the history and politics of the Black Panther Party	322.42 B623B
Capital punishment on trial: Furman V. Georgia and the death penalty in modern America	345.730773 OS4C
Collapse of American criminal justice	364.409 ST958C
College for convicts: the case for higher education in American prisons	365.666 Z79C
Command and control: nuclear weapons, the Damascus accident and the illusion of safety	363.1799 SCH39C
Convicting the innocent: where criminal prosecutions go wrong	345.73 G192C
Criminal justice in Native America	305.897 N554C
Death by government	364.151 R865D
The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap	303.372 T131D
FBI's obscene file: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's crusade against smut	363.2597 C38F
FDR's Ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis: from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II	973.917 M453F
Free to die for their country: the story of the Japanese American draft resisters in World War II	940.53162 M913F
From the closet to the altar: courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage	346.7301 K655F
Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001	958.1045 C683G
Guns across America: reconciling gun rules and rights	323.43 SP496G
Hanging Man: the arrest of Ai Weiwei	709.2 W439H
Human right to health	362.1 W832H
Internet child pornography: causes, investigation and prevention	363.47 W899I
Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption	353.48 ST481J
Kids, cops and confessions: inside the interrogation room	363.25 F332K
Living with guns: a liberal's case for the Second Amendment	323.43 W611L
Locked down, locked out: why prison doesn't work and how we can do better	364.6 SCH27L
Napalm: an American biography	355.8 N293N
Ordinary injustice: how America holds court
Plague of prisons: the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America	365.975 D84P
Poverty, battered women and work in U.S. public policy	362.8292 B838P
Punishment and inequality in America	365.973 W525P
Reload: rethinking violence in American life	306.0973 ST81R
Right to be parents: LGBT families and the transformation of parenthood	346.73017 B21R
Rise of the warrior cop: the militarization of America's police forces	363.20973 B199R
Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution	306.766 C245S
Terrorism TV: popular entertainment in post-9/11 America	791.4572 T139T
To the end of June: the intimate life of American foster care	362.733 B37T
Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: terrorism and justice in the guilded age	345.7302 M563T
Tribal policing: asserting sovereignty, seeking justice	363.2089 L971T
Unequal under law: race in the war on drugs	345.7302 P949U
War letters: extraordinary correspondence from American wars	355 C236W
Weed the people: the future of legal marijuana in America	362.295 B235W
When prisoners come home: parole and prisoner reentry	364.8 P442W
Yellowstone and the snowmobile: locking horns over national park use	363.68 Y72Y

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Political Science Reading Assignment: Criminal Justice and Law

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