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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
Gulag: A History of the Soviet CampsAnne Applebaum200428 pts2 wins6 listsDoubledayHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
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
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
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a NumberJacobo Timerman198114 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+1
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
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LAJesse Katz202512 pts1 wins2 listsAstra HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+1
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill Leovy201512 pts2 wins3 listsOne WorldTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox Butterfield199512 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCourts & Trials+2
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass IncarcerationNicole R. Fleetwood202010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismCrime, Policing & Violence+1
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided FranceRuth Harris201010 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Denial of DeathErnest Becker197310 pts1 wins1 listsFree PressSociety & CultureBlack History & Culture+2
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme CourtElder Witt198010 pts1 wins1 listsCQ PressPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+2
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime SyriaRania Abouzeid201810 pts1 wins3 listsOneworldWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
SolitaryAlbert Woodfox with Leslie George20198 pts0 wins2 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+1
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
The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling ImmigrantsAdam Goodman20206 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal PétainJulian Jackson20236 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
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
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for ProfitRobin Bernstein20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
The PicnicMatthew Longo20234 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+3
Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the LawBennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Willig20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressRace & EthnicityImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Fox & I: An Uncommon FriendshipCatherine Raven20214 pts1 wins1 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Halfway HomeReuben Miller20214 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual EconomyPeter Temin20174 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressBusiness & EconomicsSlavery & Emancipation+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
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaElizabeth Hinton20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressTrue Crime & JusticeDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireRobert Perkinson20104 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra PoundHumphrey Carpenter19884 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871Joseph Frank19764 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyReligion & Religious Movements+2
Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from ExtremismCarla Power20214 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+1
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and FreedomBrittany K. Barnett20204 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+3
Separated: Inside an American TragedyJacob Soboroff20204 pts0 wins1 listsCustom HouseJournalism & ReportagePrisons & Incarceration+1
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American IncarcerationChristine Montross20204 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Civilizing Torture: An American TraditionW. Fitzhugh Brundage20194 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryPrisons & Incarceration+2
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of BitcoinNathaniel Popper20154 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to JusticeKevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy20134 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+1
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal InsurgencyIoan Grillo20114 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East DivideJeffrey Goldberg20084 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+2
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal CourthouseSteve Bogira20054 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine BartlettJennifer Gonnerman20044 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+1
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. Posner19994 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+2
Crime and Punishment in AmericaElliott Currie19984 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
Crime and Punishment in American HistoryLawrence M. Friedman19934 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryPrisons & Incarceration+2
The Crime of PunishmentKarl Menninger, M.D.19684 pts0 wins1 listsVikingTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Crisis in Watertown: The Polarization of an American CommunityLynn Eden19734 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Michigan PressPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+2
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison BusinessJessica Mitford19744 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+2
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian PrisonAhmed Naji20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American DreamMegan Greenwell20252 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBusiness & EconomicsOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American JusticeBarbara Bradley Hagerty20242 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
Magically Black and Other EssaysJerald Walker20242 pts0 wins1 listsAmistadNature & EnvironmentPrisons & Incarceration+3
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American CityNicholas Dawidoff20222 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+3
The Last WildernessNeil Ansell20182 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Bad NewsAnjan Sundaram20172 pts0 wins1 listsDoubledayJournalism & ReportageCrime, Policing & Violence+2
The Empathy ExamsLeslie Jamison20142 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret JoyceNigel Farndale20062 pts0 wins1 listsMacmillanBiographyCourts & Trials+3
Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in IraqJo Tatchell20062 pts0 wins1 listsSceptreMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Hogarth, A Life and a WorldJenny Uglow19972 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyPrisons & Incarceration+2
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent EraKevin Brownlow19902 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfSociety & CultureCourts & Trials+2
Johnny Cash: The LifeRobert Hilburn20142 pts0 wins1 listsBack Bay BooksBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Circling SkyNeil Ansell20211 pts0 wins1 listsHeadlineNature & EnvironmentFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in GuantanamoLakhdar Boumediene, Mustafa Ait Idir20170 pts0 wins1 listsRedwood PressMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late AntiquityJulia Hillner20150 pts0 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Freedom Riders: 1961- and the Struggle for Racial JusticeRaymond Arsenault20050 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityPrisons & Incarceration+3
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