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All awards · Topic: Crime, Policing & Violence · Sorted by score · 537 books · filtered
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann Thompson201732 pts3 wins6 listsPantheonHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
A Civil ActionJonathan Harr199522 pts2 wins4 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant NonviolenceErik Erikson196920 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+2
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the BorderlandsKelly Lytle Hernández202320 pts1 wins5 listsW. W. NortonHistoryPrisons & Incarceration+2
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill UsRachel Louise Snyder201920 pts2 wins5 listsBloomsburySociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of PunishmentShane Bauer201918 pts3 wins5 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaJames Forman Jr.201716 pts1 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityPrisons & Incarceration+2
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary AmericaJohn Wood Sweet202314 pts2 wins2 listsHenry Holt and CompanyHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a NumberJacobo Timerman198114 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+1
When Women Kill: Four Crimes RetoldAlia Trabucco Zerán202214 pts1 wins2 listsCoffee House PressTrue Crime & JusticeMemoir & Personal History+2
Newjack: Guarding Sing SingTed Conover200014 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+1
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass IncarcerationEmily Bazelon201914 pts1 wins3 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal ExecutionersMargaret A. Burnham202214 pts2 wins4 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefLawrence Wright201314 pts0 wins4 listsVintage BooksReligionCrime, Policing & Violence+2
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LAJesse Katz202512 pts1 wins2 listsAstra HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+1
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill HouseKate Summerscale200812 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+1
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global SecuritySarah Chayes201512 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+1
Tennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard Martin198012 pts3 wins3 listsOxford University PressBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill Leovy201512 pts2 wins3 listsOne WorldTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIDavid Grann201812 pts1 wins3 listsDoubledayTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+1
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox Butterfield199512 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCourts & Trials+2
The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and HumanitySteven Pinker201112 pts0 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence
John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial LawBeth Lew-Williams202510 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save AmericaDahlia Lithwick202210 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupPolitics & GovernmentLaw & Legal Change+2
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass IncarcerationNicole R. Fleetwood202010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismCrime, Policing & Violence+1
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand CreekAri Kelman201310 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's HistoryCatherine Merridale201310 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle EastLawrence Freedman200810 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsPolitics & GovernmentHuman Rights & International Law+3
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionEdward J. Larson199710 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryLaw & Legal Change+2
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiJohn Dittmer199410 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350Robert Bartlett199310 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord StatesDorothy V. Jones199110 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressPolitics & GovernmentIndigenous History+3
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900Roger Lane198610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Byng of Vimy: General and Governor GeneralJeffery Williams198310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyReproductive Rights & Family Policy+3
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme CourtElder Witt198010 pts1 wins1 listsCQ PressPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan FarmMaggie Siggins199210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of HistoryKarl Jacoby200810 pts2 wins3 listsPenguin PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime SyriaRania Abouzeid201810 pts1 wins3 listsOneworldWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of SafetyEric Schlosser201310 pts0 wins3 listsPenguin PressWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerTimothy W. Ryback20248 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryMental Health & Psychology+3
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French LouisianaSophie White20198 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Circumstantial EvidencePete Earley19968 pts2 wins2 listsBantam BooksTrue Crime & JusticeHuman Rights & International Law+1
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid EpidemicEric Eyre20208 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Killing Of Crazy HorseThomas Powers20108 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaErik Larson20038 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+1
Race, Crime, and the LawRandall Kennedy19978 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonRace & EthnicityCourts & Trials+2
Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1850Richard Slotkin19738 pts1 wins2 listsWesleyan University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial RevolutionPriya Satia20188 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short LivesGary Younge20168 pts1 wins3 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
SolitaryAlbert Woodfox with Leslie George20198 pts0 wins2 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+1
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect PredatorsRonan Farrow20188 pts0 wins2 listsLittle, BrownJournalism & ReportageIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First CenturyWalter Scheidel20178 pts0 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsThomas Byrne Edsall, Mary D. Edsall19928 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+2
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence ThomasJane Mayer, Jill Abramson19948 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+1
The Other Side: A MemoirLacy M. Johnson20148 pts0 wins3 listsTin HouseBiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An AnswerSarah Bakewell20116 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Crime in AmericaRamsey Clark19716 pts1 wins2 listsOrionTrue Crime & JusticeHuman Rights & International Law+1
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial KillersCaroline Fraser20256 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal PétainJulian Jackson20236 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
An American Summer: Love and Death in ChicagoAlex Kotlowitz20196 pts1 wins2 listsNan A. TaleseSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a PresidentCandice Millard20126 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationReuben Jonathan Miller20226 pts0 wins2 listsLittle, BrownRace & EthnicityCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert MurdochNick Davies20156 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksJournalism & ReportageBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Den of ThievesJames B. Stewart19916 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsPrisons & Incarceration+2
Looking at Women, Looking at WarVictoria Amelina20254 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressWar & MilitaryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in AmericaJeff Hobbs20254 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterSociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the NorthMichelle Adams20254 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the BorderIeva Jusionyte20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for AsylumCarol Cleaveland, Michele Waslin20244 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressGender & SexualityCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarLien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston,, Pierre Asselin20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human OriginsStefanos Geroulanos20244 pts1 wins1 listsLiverightHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual WorldSara E. Johnson20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My CountryPatricia Evangelista20234 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseJournalism & ReportageDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native AmericaGregory D. Smithers20224 pts1 wins1 listsBeacon PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850Alan Taylor20214 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social JusticeMarilyn S. Greenwald, Yun Li20214 pts1 wins1 listsFordham University PressBiographyIndigenous History+3
Halfway HomeReuben Miller20214 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic MythMagda Teter20204 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Louder I Will SingLee Lawrence20204 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American FreedomSarah Seo20194 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945Emma Kuby20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial PredicamentOrlando Patterson20194 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Cult of the ConstitutionMary Anne Franks20194 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
The Rise of Big Data PolicingAndrew Guthrie Ferguson20194 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal CourtNicole Gonzalez Van Cleve20164 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted TerritoryKeggie Carew20164 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovernThomas J. Knock20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan CommunityMax Bergholz20164 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Borderless Wars: Civil Military Disorder and Legal UncertaintyAntonia Chayes20154 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+3
Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime IraqJ. Martin Daughtry20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval EuropeE.M. Rose20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa JapanAdam Clulow20144 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
The True American: Murder and Mercy in TexasAnand Giridharadas20144 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of WarIan Buruma20144 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismIndigenous History+3
Out of the Mountains: The Coming of Age of the Urban GuerrillaDavid Kilcullen20134 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French GuianaMiranda Spieler20124 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Footnotes in GazaJoe Sacco20104 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanJournalism & ReportageCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's BountyCraig Welch20104 pts1 wins1 listsWilliam MorrowNature & EnvironmentCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireRobert Perkinson20104 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern DistrictPeter Moskos20084 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressMemoir & AutobiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
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All awards · Topic: Crime, Policing & Violence · Sorted by score · 537 books · filtered