Checking Out Books
Below you will find subject links that take you to a list of books on that subject. There are also individual books that you can click on. Some of the books listed are online and some are physical books in the library. You can check out these books by calling for curbside pick-up. The books that say "available online," mean you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
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Mass Incarceration
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. You can check out these books by calling for curbside pick-up. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Slavery by Another Name: the re-enslavement of black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Call Number: E185.2 .B545 2008ISBN: 9780385506250Publication Date: 2008-03-25
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: E185.86 .T373 2016ISBN: 9781608465620Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time by Call Number: HV8699.U5 U734 2012ISBN: 9781593324452Publication Date: 2012-04-01
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America by Call Number: HV8705 .D78 2011ISBN: 9781595584977Publication Date: 2011-08-30Deals with illness in prisons, mostly.
After Life Imprisonment: reentry in the era of mass incarceration by Call Number: HV9304 .L54 2016ISBN: 9781479806928Publication Date: 2016-09-20
A Country Called Prison by Call Number: HV9466 .L66 2015ISBN: 9780190211035Publication Date: 2015-07-01
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States by Call Number: HV9471 .G76 2014ISBN: 9780309298018Publication Date: 2014-05-24
Locked In: the true causes of mass incarceration--and how to achieve real reform by Call Number: HV9471 .P449 2017ISBN: 9780465096916Publication Date: 2017-02-07
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: the making of mass incarceration in America by Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016ISBN: 9780674737235Publication Date: 2016-05-02
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration by ISBN: 0871546523Publication Date: 2004-05-20
The U.S. Prison System
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. You can check out these books by calling for curbside pick-up. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Captive Genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex by Call Number: HQ77.9 .C36 2015ISBN: 9781849352345Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Convicting the Innocent: death row and America's broken system of justice by Call Number: HV8699.U5 C64 2016ISBN: 9781632206466Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Humane Health Care for Prisoners by Call Number: HV8833 .F35 2017ISBN: 9781440855504Publication Date: 2017-05-05
Prison Food in America by Call Number: HV8847 .C36 2017ISBN: 9781442253476Publication Date: 2016-12-08
Parental Incarceration and the Family by Call Number: HV8886.U5 A73 2012ISBN: 9780814705124Publication Date: 2012-05-28
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration by Call Number: HV8925 .P58 2007ISBN: 9781595581679Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Punishment for Sale: private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge by Call Number: HV9469 .S45 2010ISBN: 9781442201736Publication Date: 2010-01-16
Why American Prisons Fail by Call Number: HV9471 .P39 2016ISBN: 9781611635188Publication Date: 2015-12-28
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Call Number: HV9471 .W36 2003ISBN: 0415935377Publication Date: 2003-01-10
From Deportation to Prison by Call Number: JV6483 .M265 2016ISBN: 9781479804665Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs by Call Number: KF4755 .P76 2007ISBN: 9780226684628Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Call Number: KF9300.N38 2018ISBN: 9780465093793Publication Date: 2018-12-31
The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform by Call Number: KF9685 .O324 2017ISBN: 9781440840876Publication Date: 2017-03-20
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline by Call Number: LB3012.2 .F76 2014ISBN: 9781433123238Publication Date: 2014-05-02
The School to Prison Pipeline: The Role of Culture and Discipline in School by ISBN: 9781785601293Publication Date: 2017-03-03
The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy by ISBN: 1604862416Publication Date: 2009-09-01Bodies in Beds: Why Business Should Stay Out of Prisons by
ISBN: 1628942665Publication Date: 2017-04-15
Prison Reform
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. You can check out these books by calling for curbside pick-up. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Prison sentences [has subtopics]
Prisoners [has subtopics]
Capital punishment [has tons of subtopics]
Discrimination in capital punishment
Death row inmates--United States [has subtopics]
General Books on Criminal Justice
Race in America by Call Number: Hot Topics Table E184.A1 R2923 2017ISBN: 9781534500280Publication Date: 2017-01-01Especially Chapter 3: Is Justice Color-Blind?
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Social Issues by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HN18 .T35 2019ISBN: 9781260180299Publication Date: 2019Unit 5 relates to Crime and Social Control.
Hot Topics Table can be found in the half-bookcases at the front of the library.
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Crime and Criminology by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HV6789 .T35 2017ISBN: 9781259670626Publication Date: 2016-10-06Hot Topics Table can be found in the half-bookcases at the front of the library.
Mass Incarceration by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HV9469 .M38 2018ISBN: 9781534500457Publication Date: 2017-07-15Hot Topics Table can be found in the half-bookcases at the front of the library.
America's Prisons by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HV9471 .A49 2016ISBN: 9780737775365Publication Date: 2015-12-16Hot Topics Table can be found in the half-bookcases at the front of the library.
Also available as an eBook!
Gender, Crime, and Justice: Exploring the Dynamics by Call Number: HV6046 .W55 2017ISBN: 9781626376601Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race by Call Number: HV7936.R3 B38 2018ISBN: 9781108429313Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism by Call Number: HV8139.H69 2017ISBN: 9780190659332Publication Date: 2017-07-17
Police Use of Force by Call Number: HV8141 .P59353 2017ISBN: 9781498732147Publication Date: 2016-08-12
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Call Number: HV8141 .R57 2017ISBN: 9780807088982Publication Date: 2017-08-01
When Police Use Force: Context, Methods, Outcomes by Call Number: HV8141.B679 2018ISBN: 9781626376991Publication Date: 2018-02-25
Repairing Communities Through Restorative Justice by Call Number: HV8688 .R46 2002ISBN: 1569911525Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice, & the Death Penalty by Call Number: HV8699 .U5 J33 1996ISBN: 1569247617Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Incarceration Nations by Call Number: HV8705 .D74 2017ISBN: 9781590518991Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Incarcerated Women: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons by Call Number: HV9466.I53 2017ISBN: 9781498542111Publication Date: 2017-02-06
