15 Books

1) The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst Hardcover – November 19, 2013

by Robert Blecker The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards

2) Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law [Kindle Edition]

Nonie Darwish Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life―family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything―was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.

3) Crime And Punishment In American History Paperback – September 9, 1994

by Lawrence Friedman In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

4) Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law [Hardcover] Paperback – 2009

by Nonie Darwish Islamic Law is harsh

5) Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America Paperback – April 11, 1996

by Michael Tonry Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison--and for longer terms--than any other western nation

6) States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting DiePaperback – Bargain Price, April 27, 2009

by Austin Sarat (Editor), Jennifer L. Culbert (Editor)'

The book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under which states use violence and the significance of violence to our understanding of states.

7) Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in AmericaPaperback – September 28, 2012

by John T. Whitehead  (Author), Kimberly D. Dodson (Author), Bradley D. Edwards (Author)

Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America.

8) Are Prisons Obsolete? Paperback – August 5, 2003

by Angela Y. Davis  (Author) 

9) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessPaperback – January 16, 2012

by Michelle Alexander  (Author), Cornel West (Introduction) By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness

10) Crime and Punishment in America Paperback – March 26, 2013

by Elliott Currie  (Author)When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remained—by an overwhelming margin—the most violent industrialized society in the world. 

11) Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [1989] (Author) Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Gibian, Jessie Senior Coulson

12) Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration Paperback – October 1, 2007

by Devah Pager  (Author) Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding their lives.

13) Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America Hardcover – August 5, 2014

by Jonathan Simon (Author) For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates.

14) Prisoner Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration Paperback – October 30, 2014

by Daniel P. (Preston) Mears (Author), Joshua C. (Clifford) Cochran (Author) Prisoner Reentry is an engaging and comprehensive examination of prisoner reentry and how to improve public safety, well-being, and justice in the “era of mass incarceration.

15) The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences Paperback – May 8, 2014

by Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration (Author), After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons.