administration of criminal justice

"Determined to clear her father of the wrongful conviction for a gang-related crossfire death, thirteen-year-old Trell persuades a reporter and a lawyer to investigate the case and uncover the truth"--OCLC.

"... Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's Waron Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realizationof the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s."--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the full story of Adnan Syed, as told on the podcast "Serial." Family friend and attorney Rabia Chaudry traces the accusations, trial, and aftermath of Syed's alleged killing of his high school ex-girlfriend in 2000, arguing for his innocence and release.

Discusses the case of a party for Duke University lacrosse players when a hired stripper dialed 911 to report a rape, and covers the resulting legal battle and dropped charges against three players as well as the problems with media coverage and the actions of college administration.

Follows the arrests, confessions, trials, and convictions of fifteen innocent people who were nonetheless convicted and sent to prison before they were exonerated. They tell their stories to a group of high-profile mystery and thriller writers who describe what went wrong and offer data about crime and prison issues in order to make readers aware of these problems.

Presents the argument that America's war on terror, begun by the Bush administration after 9/11 and continued under Obama, has had the effect of weakening the rule of law at home, the courts, and the constitution in the name of national security. Discusses the history of NSA spying on U.S. citizens, the Patriot Act, the ACLU's activism, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden's revealed documents.

Presents a range of essays espousing opposing viewpoints on topics relating to modern American prisons and the experiences of prisoners inside them and once they get released.

Collection of prison writings, including unreleased National Public Radio commentaries, by journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death row inmate who contends he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.

A collection of primary sources on crime and punishment in the U.S. from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, covering such topics as Puritan laws, Revolution-era punishments, and frontier executions.

Contains a collection of articles that offer varied perspectives on topics related to America's prisons.