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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 259,351 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,595 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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4.55 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Abolition For The People
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4.08 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
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4.02 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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4.40 avg rating — 16,031 ratings
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Razor Wire Wilderness
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice
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3.97 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Gideon's Children
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3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
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4.08 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
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3.72 avg rating — 205,694 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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3.87 avg rating — 83,949 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,900 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 79,545 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
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4.05 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,480 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,105 ratings
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After the Madness
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3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
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4.04 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
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4.16 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice
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3.56 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
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3.85 avg rating — 768 ratings
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
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3.65 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
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3.23 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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Convicting the Innocent
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3.74 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works...and Sometimes Doesn't
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3.80 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
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3.89 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Down Inside: Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
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4.01 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health
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4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
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3.79 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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4.31 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
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Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace
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4.51 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Crime of Impunity. The Crime of Punishment
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
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3.35 avg rating — 55 ratings
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
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3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
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4.22 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
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3.99 avg rating — 4,566 ratings
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Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
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4.15 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Injustice for All: America's Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System and How to Fix It
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4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
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3.91 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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4.42 avg rating — 4,073 ratings
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Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
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4.06 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Justice Failed
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3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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3.96 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner
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4.01 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing
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4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail
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3.96 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
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4.45 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
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3.67 avg rating — 258 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,163 ratings
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My Beloved World
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4.09 avg rating — 33,833 ratings
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Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
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4.06 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Art of Justice: An Eyewitness View of Thirty Infamous Trials
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
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3.83 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
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Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
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3.96 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Room with the Little Door
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
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4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America's Prisons
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Fugitive Man: Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Beyond Cages
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
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4.15 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Fighting Injustice
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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4.64 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
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4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
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3.97 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
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4.21 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail
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3.93 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
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4.18 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
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3.93 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
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4.18 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham
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3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
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4.15 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case (Fire Ant Books)
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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4.21 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Story Of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City
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4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
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4.02 avg rating — 998 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
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4.04 avg rating — 4,054 ratings
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The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
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3.68 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
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4.17 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
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3.94 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror
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3.63 avg rating — 118 ratings
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
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4.12 avg rating — 169 ratings
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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4.25 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
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3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
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4.11 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
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4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
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4.18 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book, Featuring the Justices in their Own Words
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3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings
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