Criminal Justice
True crime, wrongful convictions, police and prisons: books that look closely at how justice works, and where it fails the people caught in it.
Criminal Justice Library

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

Between the World and Me

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture – and What We Can Do about It

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Determined: Life without Free Will

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Four Hundred Souls: A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICA, 1619–2019

Guantánamo Diary

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Know My Name: A Memoir

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Making a Psychopath: My Journey Into Seven Dangerous Minds

Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime – From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Solitary: A Biography

So You Want to Talk About Race

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld

The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women