#Criminal Justice

3 books tagged with criminal justice, sorted by rating.

Gideon's Trumpet

by Anthony Lewis

5/5

Law & Legal History

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

5/5

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

5/5

Law & Legal History

Gideon's Trumpet

by Anthony Lewis

5/5

The classic backstory of one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American history. In 1962, a penniless Florida prisoner named Clarence Earl Gideon sent a handwritten petition to the Supreme Court. The result, Gideon v. Wainwright, established the right to appointed counsel for criminal defendants who could not afford a lawyer.

Law & Legal History

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

5/5

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was Walter McMillian, a young man condemned to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit.

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography History

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

5/5

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."

Law & Legal History