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  • The Cycle of Juvenile Justice

    The Cycle of Juvenile Justice takes a historical look at juvenile justice policies in the United States. Tracing a pattern of policies over the past 200 years, the book reveals cycles of reforms advocating either lenient treatment or harsh punishments for juvenile delinquents. Bernard and Kurlychek see this cycle as driven by several unchanging ideas that force us to repeat, rather than learn from ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Prison, Inc.

    A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison

    by K.C. Carceral ...
    Series Book 14 - Alternative Criminology
    Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, not much is known about how these facilities are run and whether or not they can effectively watch over this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • In the President's Secret Service

    Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

    After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Crisis of Character

    A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

    by Gary J. Byrne ...
    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, a former secret service officer reveals what he saw of Bill and Hillary Clinton's behavior while on protection duty."Byrne's What-the-Butler-Saw style account is particularly damning [. . .] so much of his testimony rings true based on what the world knows about goings-on at the Clinton White House. It is little wonder the Clinton camp has not only denounced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Newjack

    Guarding Sing Sing

    by Ted Conover ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing.“Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World**When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State ... Read more

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  • Rough Sleepers

    Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “excellent and immersive” (The Wall Street Journal) story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Halfway Home

    Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

    A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.Reuben Miller, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tangled Up in Blue

    Policing the American City

    by Rosa Brooks ...
    **Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post“Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post“Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Secrets of the Secret Service

    The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service

    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Crisis of Character comes an explosive exposé of the Secret Service.The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In this book, former Secret Service o... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    by Mac Tatum ...
    Series series Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside
    Mac provides a raw, realistic and comprehensive look inside the nations maximum-security prison system. If you have ever wondered what really goes on on the inside, this is the book for you. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • What Killed Jane Creba

    Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War

    by Anita Arvast ...
    The sensational story of a girl's tragic death and the whirlwind of racial prejudices that came in its wake.On Boxing Day 2005, fifteen-year-old Jane Creba was fatally shot on one of the busiest streets in Toronto. Police and journalists reported her death as that of an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of rival gangs.In the months that followed Creba’s death, fifty-six men of colour were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turnaround

    How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic

    When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD