Criminology
- True Witness: Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle against Misidentification
- "Jim Doyle's new book, True Witness, could not have come at a more opportune time to help inform and shape the growing and intensifying national debate about the value and reliability of eye witness identification testimony. A factual story that reads like fiction, not like an academic treatise, Doyle's book will attract and hold the attention of people on all sides of this important issue.
- Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times
- Rodriguez (Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.) here takes a long, hard look at the endemic violence and the "cultural malaise of isolation and meaninglessness" that he sees as defining swaths of U.S. culture.
- Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
- "Jody Raphael conveys a gripping story of one woman's journey through abuse, drug addiction, and imprisonment. The third of Raphael's trilogy of books about Chicago women enmeshed in lives of poverty, violence, prostitution, and drug use, Freeing Tammy is an invaluable contribution to the field of women's criminology.
- Cop : A True Story
- Middleton joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1966 and served for 21 years, reaching the rank of sergeant before he retired. His chronicle of his experiences is a top-flight view of police work at the street level, where an officer's death is an ever-present possibility and physical battles with suspects are frequent.
- The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford Handbooks)
- Review from previous edition "Excellent text covering wide body of criminology but providing depth of cover", Clare Connelly, University of Glasgow"very comprehensive and authoritative. Excellent guides to further reading in each area. An excellent book but we recommend a number of boolks which combined vover our course well", Gavin Dingwall, University of Wales, Aberystwyth'.
- Finding Life On Death Row: Profiles of Six Inmates
- Executions in the U.S. are usually carried out with little fanfare, and the public rarely knows much about who is being killed in its name. In this disturbing book, Lezin, a freelance writer who used to work at the office of career services at the Georgetown University Law Center, puts a human face on the debate about capital punishment.
- Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help Bad Boys Become Good Men
- The author's own history is a litany of physical abuse, parental neglect, abandonment, foster homes, homelessness, drug use, and juvenile incarcerations. With determination and, importantly, help, young Kipnis managed a lifestyle change: He earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is now on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
