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From the Library's Collection
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American Injustice
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Call Number: RHC. KF9223 .R83ISBN: 9780062997357Publication Date: 2022Renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney David Rudolf has spent decades defending the wrongfully accused. Rudolf takes the reader inside crime scenes to examine forensic evidence left by perpetrators, revisits unsolved murders to detail how and why the true culprits were never prosecuted, reveals how confirmation bias leads police and prosecutors to employ tactics that make wrongful arrests and prosecutions more likely, and exposes how poverty and racism fundamentally distort the system. -
Digital punishment : privacy, stigma & the harms of data-driven criminal justice
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Call Number: HV9950 .W53ISBN: 9780367770297Publication Date: 2020This analysis describes the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points, the commodification of this data into a valuable digital resource, and the impact of this shift on people, society, and public policy. The consequences of digital punishment, as described in hundreds of interviews detailed in this book, lead people to purposefully opt out of society as they cope with privacy and due process violations"-- Provided by publisher. -
Human Rights Policing
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Call Number: HV6025 .S69ISBN: 9781032115221Publication Date: 2022Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members. -
Profit and Punishment
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Call Number: HV95 .M38ISBN: 9781250274649Publication Date: 2021As a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tony Messenger has spent years in county and municipal courthouses documenting how poor Americans are convicted of minor crimes and then saddled with exorbitant fines and fees. If they are unable to pay, they are often sent to prison, where they are then charged a pay-to-stay bill, in a cycle that soon creates a mountain of debt that can take years to pay off. These insidious penalties are used to raise money for broken local and state budgets, often overseen by for-profit companies, and it is one of the central issues of the criminal justice reform movement. -
Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System
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ISBN: 9781793601070Publication Date: 2020Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media, Nadal reviews a wide range of issues-ranging from historical heterosexist and transphobic legislation to police brutality to the prison industrial complex to family law. Grounded in Queer Theory and intersectional lenses, each chapter provides recommendations for queering and disrupting the justice system. This book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for readers who are interested in advocating for LGBTQ rights. -
Stop and Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago
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Call Number: RHC. HV6795.C4 S45ISBN: 9780197675052Publication Date: 2022Wesley G. Skogan offers a comprehensive analysis of the stop-and-frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding to violence, and its impact on crime and public opinion. Drawing on a crime database of over 14 million incidents, interviews with 1,450 Chicagoans and 714 police officers, and the author's 30 years of studying, talking to, and riding along with Chicago police officers, Skogan looks at the inner workings of police departments and the history and politics of crime prevention that motivate these policies.
Recommended article databases
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NCJRS National Criminal Justice Research CenterSummaries of the more than 220,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection. When the full-text is available online, a link to the sponsoring agency is included with the abstract.
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Military & Government Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Includes full text for nearly 300 journals, periodicals, and current newspapers pertaining to all branches of the U.S. military and government.
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Nexis Uni - Legal This link opens in a new window
Provides access to primary source material such as case law, statutes, and regulations as well as secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic. NOTE: If you get a security message blocking your access, call Oakton Library Reference 847.635.1644
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SocINDEX Full Text - EBSCO This link opens in a new windowSociology database with full text for more than 860 journals. Law enforcement researchers will benefit from the coverage of sub-disciplines such as criminology & criminal justice.