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Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition: Books: Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration

A research guide created by Brooklyn Law School's librarians to assist those who wish to identify resources on mass incarceration and prison abolition. This guide highlights selected New York-specific events and sources.

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Please see also the books in guide box: Gender & Justice.

Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration & Crimes Against Black Americans (available through BLS Library)

Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases by Moa Liden
Publication Date: 2023
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). Users have access to 1 copy of this ebook. First-time use of EBC platform requires BLS patrons to click: Create Account. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)
Criminal Testimonial Injustice by Jennifer Lackey
Publication Date: 2023
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). Users have access to 1 copy of this ebook. First-time use of EBC platform requires BLS patrons to click: Create Account. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)
The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts by Stephen Bright & James Kwak
Publication Date: 2023
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). Users have access to 1 copy of this ebook. First-time use of EBC platform requires BLS patrons to click: Create Account. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)
American Injustice: Inside Stories From the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System by David S. Rudolf
Publication Date: 2022
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The Dark Side of the Criminal Justice System: War Crimes & the Black Community, 1960-1990 by Ronald L. Morris
Call Number: KF9223 .M67 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates
Call Number: KF373.C585 A3 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022
Incarceration Without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (ebook) by Mikaela Rabinowitz
Publication Date: 2021
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). Mulitple-user access. First-time use of EBC platform requires BLS patrons to click: Create Account. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago (ebook) by Flint Taylor
Publication Date: 2019
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Unlimited copies available. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Call Number: HV8141 .B88 2017 (Main)
Publication Date: 2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Call Number: HV9950 .F655 2017 (Course Reserves)
Publication Date: 2017
Prof. James Forman Jr. is a former public defender.
Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis (Editor)
Call Number: HV9950 .P64 2017 (Main)
Publication Date: 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2012 (Course Reserves)
Publication Date: 2012
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Call Number: E185.2 .B545 2008 (Main)
Publication Date: 2008
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System by David Cole
Call Number: HV9950 .C58 1999 (Main)
Publication Date: 1999
Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America by Jerold S. Auerbach
Call Number: KF298 .A947 1976 (Main)
Publication Date: 1976

Note: BLS Library also provides Unequal Justice as an ebook. In catalog record for this ebook, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Unlimited copies available. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)

New Ideas: Criminal Justice Administration

Advancing Equity at the Intersection of Race, Mental Illness, and Criminal Justice Involvement by Deanna M. Adams
Call Number: KF9223 .A9243 2023 (Main)
Publication Date: 2023
Extending Justice: Strategies to Increase Inclusion and Reduce Bias by Bernice B. Donald & Sarah E. Redfield, eds.
Call Number: KF384 .E98 2023 (Main)
Publication Date: 2023
Change From Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor by Miriam Aroni Krinsky
Publication Date: 2022
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Fixing Legal Injustice in America: The Case for a Defender General of the United States by Andrea D. Lyon & foreword by Cynthia W. Roseberry
Call Number: KF9223 .L963 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022
Justice for All: Repairing American Criminal Justice by Charles E. 'Chuck' MacLean & Adam Lamparello
Publication Date: 2022
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Justice In-Between: A Study of Intermediate Criminal Verdicts by Federico Picinali
Publication Date: 2022
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Understanding Legitimacy in Criminal Justice: Conceptual and Measurement Challenges by Liqun Cao, ed.
Publication Date: [2022]
In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)

New Ideas: U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Making

Diversity Judgments: Democratizing Judicial Legitimacy by Roy L. Brooks
Call Number: KF4755 .B7577 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022

Borders, Detention of Migrants & U.S. Border Patrol (available through BLS Library)

Against Borders: The Case for Abolition by Gracie Mae Bradley & Luke de Noronha
Call Number: JC323 .B73 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022
Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (ebook) by Kristina Shull
Publication Date: 2022
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Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States (ebook) by Reece Jones
Publication Date: 2022
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Enemy Combatant Policies Since 9/11 (available through BLS Library)

Courts at War: Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies Since 9/11 by Gregory Burnep
Call Number: KF9625 .B87 2021 (Main)
Publication Date: 2021

Nature of Police & Policing (available through BLS Library)

Constitutional Policing: Striving for a More Perfect Union by Michael A. Hardy, ed.
Call Number: KF4695 .C66 2023 (Main)
Publication Date: 2023
Uniform Feelings: Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing by Jessi Lee Jackson
Call Number: HV7936.P75 J33 2022 (Main)
Publication Date: 2022
Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police by David Correia & Tyler Wall
Publication Date: 2021
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Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison (available through BLS Library)

Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison: Justice Denied (ebook) by Kathi Milliken-Boyd & contributor James Windell
Publication Date: 2022
In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBC). Users have access to multiple copies of this ebook. First-time use of EBC platform requires BLS patrons to click: Create Account. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)