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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Synopsis Acclaimed journalist Conover sets a new standard for reporting when he applies for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now the New York State's most troubled maximum-security facility.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote Publisher Comments On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope Rising by Kim Meeder Publisher Comments Kim Meeder has seen horses go where no one else can tread - stepping through the minefield of a broken child's soul in a dance of trust that only God can understand. From a mistreated horse to an emotionally starved child and back again, a torrent of... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America’s Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him “an angel from God,” Geoffrey Canada was a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang by Samuel Logan Publisher Comments At age 12, Honduran-American Brenda Paz was affiliated with a powerful Los Angeles clique of the Mara Salvatrucha, a violent stree gang. At the age of 15 she willingly took a 13-second-long beating from a group of gang members without fighting back. She... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon Publisher Comments Edgar and Anthony Award Winner Selected by the Literary Guild "Remarkable...A true crime classic." ASSOCIATED PRESS Enter the workday of real policemen. Follow fifteen detectives, three sergeants, and a lieutenant, whose job it is to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare Publisher Comments Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes Publisher Comments Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang-bangers are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. In "8 Ball Chicks", veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Matter How Loud I Shout : a Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (96 Edition) by Edward Humes Publisher Comments At a time when an epidemic of violence has left America afraid for — and afraid of — its children, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes takes a poignant look at a year in the life of Los Angeles Juvenile Court, providing a vivid... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Serial Killers: The Insatiable Passion by David Lester Publisher Comments This bestselling book has become a staple of every serious true crime book collector's library. One of the most reliable concise sources of information available about serial killers and their crimes, this book offers a psychological and sociological... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz Staff Pick A fascinating book for anyone interested in criminal investigation and forensics. Frances Glessner Lee founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. By the 1940s, she was building detailed doll houses that replicated unsolved crime scenes... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder by Robert Graysmith Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac now uncovers one of the most bizarre cases in the annals of American crime. San Francisco, 1926: A series of women are slashed to death and dismembered. Incredibly, eyewitness reports claim the perpetrator... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer by Kamala Harris Synopsis The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit another crime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing by Norm Stamper Publisher Comments Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals by John E Douglas Publisher Comments From legendary FBI profiler John Douglas and Mark Olshaker -- authors of the nonfiction international bestsellers Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession -- comes an unprecedented, insightful look at the root of all crime. Every crime is a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Media and Crime (04 Edition) by Yvonne Jewkes Publisher Comments 'Media and Crime is a thought-provoking and scholarly work written in a very lively style. It will be of interest to readers of SCHOLAG whether or not they have some knowledge of criminological theories.' Jean McFadden, SCOLAG Journal Criminologists and... (read more) List Price $55.95 Your price: $39.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Capital Punishment by James A. (edt) Mccafferty Publisher Comments Numerous people face legal execution in the United States. Their presence in death rows throughout the country refutes a basic premise of our judicial system, for the use of capital punishment denies the existence of universal rehabilitation. There is... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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