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Criminal Justice



link to catalog page HARTNETT, Working for Justice

Working for Justice

A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism

Author: Edited by Stephen John Hartnett, Eleanor Novek, and Jennifer K. Wood
Pub Date: August 2013

Practical approaches to prison education and advocacy   learn more...

link to catalog page LICHTMAN, Organized Crime in Chicago

Organized Crime in Chicago

Beyond the Mafia

Author: Robert M. Lombardo
Pub Date: January 2013

Explaining Chicago's mix of crime, corruption, and politics   learn more...

link to catalog page CAVENDER, Justice Provocateur

Justice Provocateur

Jane Tennison and Policing in Prime Suspect

Author: Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik
Pub Date: August 2012

An insightful character-study of one of television's most compelling detectives   learn more...

link to catalog page SWEENEY, The Story Within Us

The Story Within Us

Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading

Author: Edited by Megan Sweeney
Pub Date: October 2012

Exploring the reading experiences of incarcerated women   learn more...

link to catalog page HARTNETT, Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex

Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex

Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives

Author: Edited by Stephen John Hartnett
Pub Date: January 2011

An intrepid and reasoned call for empowerment over incarceration   learn more...

link to catalog page LOMBARDO, The Black Hand

The Black Hand

Terror by Letter in Chicago

Author: Robert M. Lombardo
Pub Date: February 2010

Unraveling the truth about the sinister extortion scheme that preyed on innocent Chicagoans   learn more...

link to catalog page GIDE, Judge Not Author: André Gide
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2010

One of France's greatest modern writers examines his fascination with true crime and justice   learn more...

link to catalog page PRESSER, Been a Heavy Life

Been a Heavy Life

Stories of Violent Men

Author: Lois Presser
Pub Date: September 2008

A groundbreaking look at how violent men tell their life stories   learn more...

link to catalog page WENDER, Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life Author: Jonathan M. Wender
Pub Date: October 2008

A former police sergeant draws on philosophy, literature, and art to reveal the profound--indeed poetic--significance of police-citizen encounters   learn more...

link to catalog page LAZARUS-BLACK, Everyday Harm

Everyday Harm

Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation

Author: Mindie Lazarus-Black
Pub Date: May 2007

Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites.   learn more...

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