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Criminal Justice

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Criminal Justice

fy2026: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026

Criminal Justice

fy2025: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2024 and June 30,2025

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  1. Belly of the beast / Idle Wild Films presents a co-production with ITVS ; a film by Erika Cohn ; directed & produced by Erika Cohn ; produced by Angela Tucker, Christen Marquez, Nicole Docta. Women Make Movies; Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  2. Effective police supervision / Larry S. Miller, Harry W. More, Michael C. Braswell. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. -- print book.
  3. Homeland [electronic resource] : American life in the War on Terror / Richard Beck. Crown. -- ebook.
  4. I am evidence / HBO Documentary Films presents ; a Mighty Entertainment production ; directed by Trish Adlesic & Geeta Gandbhir ; produced by Mariska Hargitay, Trish Adlesic, in association with Artemis Rising Foundation, Fixit Productions. HBO Documentary Films. -- video DVD.
  5. Introduction to criminal justice / Larry J. Siegel, John L. Worrall. Cengage Learning Inc. -- print book.
  6. Material witness : media, forensics, evidence / Susan Schuppli. The MIT Press. -- ebook.
  7. Met her on the mountain : the murder of Nancy Morgan / Mark I. Pinsky. University Press of Kentucky. -- print book.
  8. The Pardon : The Politics of Presidential Mercy. Simon & Schuster. -- ebook.
  9. Pleading out [electronic resource] : how plea bargaining creates a permanent criminal class / Dan Canon. Basic Books. -- ebook.
  10. The Policing Machine : Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input / Tony Cheng. University of Chicago Press. -- ebook.
  11. Shakespeare behind bars / produced in association with the Independent Television Service and the BBC ; produced by Philomath Films ; a film by Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller. Kanopy Streaming; Philomath Films. -- streaming video.
  12. The suburban crisis : white America and the war on drugs / Matthew D. Lassiter. Princeton University Press. -- print book.
  13. The Work - Group Therapy with Folsom Prison Inmates . -- streaming video.
  14. Tower. Kino Lorber Edu; Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.

Criminal Justice

fy2024: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024

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  1. Aging in prison : the integration of research and practice / Martha H. Hurley. Carolina Academic Press. -- print book.
  2. American purgatory prison imperialism and the rise of mass incarceration Benjamin D. Weber The New Press. -- ebook.
  3. Anti-oppressive social work practice and the carceral state / Patricia O'Brien and Judith S. Willison. Oxford University Press. -- ebook.
  4. The archaeology of institutional confinement / Eleanor Conlin Casella ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. University Press of Florida. -- print book.
  5. The archaeology of the homed and the unhomed / Daniel O. Sayers ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. University Press of Florida. -- ebook.
  6. Bodies in evidence : race, gender, and science in sexual assault adjudication / Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  7. Books through bars : stories from the prison books movement / edited by Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis. University of Georgia Press. -- print book.
  8. Building a black criminology : race, theory and crime / edited by James D. Unnever, Shaun L. Gabbidon and Cecilia Chouhy. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. -- ebook.
  9. Building the prison state : race and the politics of mass incarceration / Heather Schoenfeld. University of Chicago Press. -- ebook.
  10. Careers in criminal justice / Coy H. Johnston, Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. SAGE. -- ebook.
  11. Collaboration and innovation in criminal justice : an activity theory alternative to offender rehabilitation / Paulo Rocha. Routledge. -- ebook.
  12. Common sense police supervision : practical tips for the first-line leader / by Gerald W. Garner, Chief of Police, Greeley Police Department, Greeley, Colorado. Charles C Thomas Publisher Ltd. -- ebook.
  13. Comparative criminal justice : international trends and practices / edited by Jospeter M. Mbuba. Rowman & Littlefield an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. -- ebook.
  14. Contemporary criminal justice careers : a comprehensive guide / Matthew J. Sheridan, Thomas J. Lalka. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  15. Correction : parole, prison, and the possibility of change / Ben Austen. Flatiron Books. -- print book.
  16. #Crime : social media, crime and the criminal legal system / Rebecca M. Hayes, Kate Luther. Palgrave Macmillan. -- ebook.
  17. Criminal justice professionals : a practical career guide / Kezia Endsley. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  18. Criminal law in a nutshell / Arnold H. Loewy (Late George Killam Chair in Criminal Law, Texas Tech University School of Law), Joseph E. Kennedy (Martha Brandis Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law). West Academic. -- print book.
  19. Criminal procedure : constitutional limitations in a nutshell / Jerold H. Israel, Wayne R. LaFave, Ric Simmons. West Academic. -- print book.
  20. Decarcerating America : from mass punishment to public health / edited by Ernest Drucker. The New Press. -- ebook.
  21. Deterrence, choice, and crime : contemporary perspectives / Daniel S. Nagin, Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, editors. Routledge. -- ebook.
  22. Duped : why innocent people confess and why we believe their confessions / Saul Kassin. Prometheus Books. -- ebook.
  23. Eligible for execution : the story of the Daryl Atkins case / Thomas G. Walker. CQ Press. -- ebook.
  24. Ending mass incarceration : why it persists and how to achieve meaningful reform / Katherine Beckett. Oxford University Press. -- ebook.
  25. The ethics of policing : new perspectives on law enforcement / edited by Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  26. Everyone against us : public defenders and the making of American justice / Allen Goodman. The University of Chicago Press. -- print book.
  27. Fixing legal injustice in America : the case for a defender general of the United States / Andrea D. Lyon. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  28. Foot patrol : rethinking the cornerstone of policing / by Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Evan T. Sorg. Springer. -- ebook.
  29. The Fourth Amendment : original understandings and modern policing / Michael J.Z. Mannheimer. University of Michigan Press. -- print book.
  30. Freeman's challenge : the murder that shook America's original prison for profit / Robin Bernstein. The University of Chicago Press. -- print book.
  31. From rage to reason : why we need sex crime laws based on facts, not fear / Emily Horowitz. Bloomsbury Academic. -- print book.
  32. Gratuitous angst in white America : a theory of whiteness and crime / Deena A. Isom. Routledge. -- print book.
  33. Halfway house : prisoner reentry and the shadow of carceral care / Liam Martin. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  34. The history of policing America : from militias and military to the law enforcement of today / Laurence Armand French. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  35. The Idea of prison abolition / Tommie Shelby. Princeton University Press. -- ebook.
  36. Incarceration and Older Women : Giving Back Not Giving Up / Regina Benedict; ed. by Beth Easterling, Lois Presser. Bristol University Press. -- ebook.
  37. Incarceration without conviction : pretrial detention and the erosion of innocence in American criminal justice / Mikaela Rabinowitz. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. -- print book.
  38. Intersecting lives : how place shapes reentry / Andrea M. Leverentz. University of California Press. -- ebook.
  39. Invisible atrocities : the aesthetic biases of international criminal justice / Randle C. DeFalco. Cambridge University Press. -- print book.
  40. Invisible mothers : unseen yet hypervisible after incarceration / Janet Garcia-Hallett. University of California Press. -- ebook.
  41. Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness in an unfair system / Laura Coates. Simon & Schuster. -- ebook.
  42. Latinas in the criminal justice system : victims, targets, and offenders / edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  43. Mass incarceration nation : how the United States became addicted to prisons and jails and how it can recover / Jeffrey Bellin. Cambridge University Press. -- print book.
  44. No place on the corner : the costs of aggressive policing / Jan Haldipur. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  45. Perpetual suspects : a critical race theory of black and mixed-race experiences of policing / Lisa J. Long. Palgrave Macmillan. -- ebook.
  46. The police and the state : security, social cooperation, and the public good / Brandon del Pozo, Brown University, Rhode Island. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  47. Police deception and dishonesty : the logic of lying / Luke William Hunt. Oxford University Press. -- print book.
  48. Police policy shifts after 9/11 : from community policing to Homeland Security : a New York case study / Mohsen Alizadeh. Springer. -- ebook.
  49. Policing black bodies : how black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  50. The prescription-to-prison pipeline : the medicalization and criminalization of pain / Michelle Smirnova. Duke University Press. -- ebook.
  51. Prisons of the world : a better way / Andrew Coyle. Policy Press. -- ebook.
  52. Producing bias-free policing : a science-based approach / Lorie A. Fridell. Springer. -- ebook.
  53. Reading behind bars : a memoir of literature, law, and life as a prison librarian / Jill Grunenwald. Skyhorse Publishing. -- ebook.
  54. Reducing recidivism : a focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment / Cathy Cowling. Lexington Books. -- ebook.
  55. Reform nation : the First Step Act and the movement to end mass incarceration / Colleen P. Eren. Stanford University Press. -- ebook.
  56. The Rowman & Littlefield handbook of policing, communication, and society : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Howard Giles, Edward R. Maguire, and Shawn L. Hill ; foreword by Darrel W. Stephens. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  57. The summer of 2020 : George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement / Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar. University Press of Mississippi. -- ebook.
  58. This is ear hustle : unflinching stories of everyday prison life / Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods. Crown. -- ebook.
  59. Titicut Follies. Kanopy Streaming; Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah). -- streaming video.
  60. Transgender cops : the intersection of gender and sexuality expectations in police cultures / Heather Panter. Routledge. -- ebook.
  61. Twenty-one mental models that can change policing : a framework for using data and research for overcoming cognitive bias / Renée J. Mitchell. Routledge. -- ebook.
  62. Violent order : essays on the nature of police / edited by David Correia and Tyler Wall ; foreword by Rachel Herzing. Haymarket Books. -- ebook.
  63. Waiting to inhale : cannabis legalization and the fight for racial justice / Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah. The MIT Press. -- ebook.
  64. When police use force : context, method, outcomes / Craig Boylstein. Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. -- ebook.
  65. Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff. Farrar Straus and Giroux; Picador. -- print book.
  66. Worldwide views on police discretion : a scoping review regarding police decision-making / Yinthe Feys. Springer. -- ebook.

Criminal Justice

fy2023: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023

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  1. America's war on drugs. Kanopy Streaming; HISTORY. -- streaming video.
  2. Beyond complicity : why we blame each other instead of systems / Francine Banner. University of California Press. -- ebook.
  3. Bodies in evidence : race, gender, and science in sexual assault adjudication / Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  4. Building a black criminology : race, theory and crime / edited by James D. Unnever, Shaun L. Gabbidon and Cecilia Chouhy. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. -- ebook.
  5. Building the prison state : race and the politics of mass incarceration / Heather Schoenfeld. University of Chicago Press. -- ebook.
  6. By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners / Margaret A. Burnham. WW Norton & Company Inc. -- print book.
  7. Careers in criminal justice / Coy H. Johnston, Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. SAGE. -- ebook.
  8. The color of crime : racial hoaxes, white crime, media messages, police violence, and other race-based harms / Katheryn Russell-Brown. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  9. #Crime : social media, crime and the criminal legal system / Rebecca M. Hayes, Kate Luther. Palgrave Macmillan. -- ebook.
  10. Dear Zachary / an Oscilloscope Laboratories and MSNBC Films presentation. Kanopy Streaming; Oscilloscope Pictures. -- streaming video.
  11. Decarcerating America : from mass punishment to public health / edited by Ernest Drucker. The New Press. -- ebook.
  12. The demands of justice : enslaved women, capital crime, and clemency in early Virginia / Tamika Y. Nunley. The University of North Carolina Press. -- print book.
  13. Ending mass incarceration : why it persists and how to achieve meaningful reform / Katherine Beckett. Oxford University Press. -- ebook.
  14. An eye for an eye : a global history of crime and punishment / Mitchel P. Roth. Reaktion Books Ltd. -- print book.
  15. Fixing legal injustice in America : the case for a defender general of the United States / Andrea D. Lyon. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  16. From rage to reason : why we need sex crime laws based on facts, not fear / Emily Horowitz. Bloomsbury Academic. -- print book.
  17. Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness in an unfair system / Laura Coates. Simon & Schuster. -- ebook.
  18. Latinas in the criminal justice system : victims, targets, and offenders / edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  19. No more police : a case for abolition / Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie ; with a foreword by Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor for Black Visions. The New Press. -- ebook.
  20. Normal : real stories from the sex industry / a film by Nicola Mai. Kanopy Streaming; Kareron. -- streaming video.
  21. Perpetual suspects : a critical race theory of black and mixed-race experiences of policing / Lisa J. Long. Palgrave Macmillan. -- ebook.
  22. Police policy shifts after 9/11 : from community policing to Homeland Security : a New York case study / Mohsen Alizadeh. Springer. -- ebook.
  23. Policing black bodies : how black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  24. The prescription-to-prison pipeline : the medicalization and criminalization of pain / Michelle Smirnova. Duke University Press. -- ebook.
  25. Reducing recidivism : a focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment / Cathy Cowling. Lexington Books. -- ebook.
  26. The Rowman & Littlefield handbook of policing, communication, and society : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Howard Giles, Edward R. Maguire, and Shawn L. Hill ; foreword by Darrel W. Stephens. Rowman & Littlefield. -- ebook.
  27. This is ear hustle : unflinching stories of everyday prison life / Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods. Crown. -- ebook.
  28. Titicut Follies. Kanopy Streaming; Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah). -- streaming video.
  29. The transferring of America's youth / edited by Sheri Jenkins Keenan. Lexington Books. -- ebook.
  30. Twenty-one mental models that can change policing : a framework for using data and research for overcoming cognitive bias / Renée J. Mitchell. Routledge. -- ebook.
  31. Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff. Farrar Straus and Giroux; Picador. -- print book.
  32. Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff. Farrar Straus and Giroux; Picador. -- print book.
  33. You might go to prison, even though you're innocent / Justin Brooks. University of California Press. -- print book.

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