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18 Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison by Nell Bernstein. The New Press, 2015. Burning Down the House takes an in-depth look at juvenile incarceration. e journalist has spent years covering the juvenile justice system and has interviewed hundreds of young people in detention facilities. http://thenewpress.com/books/burning- down-house Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk. Princeton University Press, 2015. In this book, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies— one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvest- ment, and reducing recidivism. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10330.html Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong by Brandon L. Garrett. Harvard University Press, 2012. is books makes a powerful case for systemic reform to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases. Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog. php?isbn=9780674058705 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Reprint Edition) by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Just Mercy is at once an account of an idealis- tic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a window into the lives of those he has de- fended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice. http://bryanstevenson.com/the-book/ Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law by Marianne Constable. Princeton University Press, 2005. Is the Miranda Warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional “silence” of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to “protect” and “preserve”? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8096.html Kafka’s Law: The Trial and American Criminal Justice by Robert P. Burns. University of Chicago Press, 2014. In his book, Kafka’s Law, Robert Burns shows how the trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. In the over- whelming majority of contemporary cases, police interrogation is followed by a plea bargain, in which the court’s only function is to set a largely predetermined sentence for an individual already presumed guilty. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/ chicago/K/bo18507958.html The Privilege of Silence: Fifth Amendment Protections Against Self-Incrimination (Second Edition) by Paul Hynes Jr. and Steven Salky. American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, 2015. is book explains the contours of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in practice. e Privilege of Silence organizes the relevant case law so that lawyers may advise and represent their clients by focusing on the practical aspects of Fifth Amendment assertions in all proceedings. http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ ProductDetails.aspx?productId=184862102 SUGGESTED RESOURCES Adult Nonfiction Books

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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile PrisonbyNellBernstein.TheNewPress,2015.Burning Down the House takes an in-depth look at juvenile incarceration. The journalist has spent years covering the juvenile justice system and has interviewed hundreds of young people in detention facilities.http://thenewpress.com/books/burning-down-house

Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics byMarieGottschalk.PrincetonUniversityPress,2015.In this book, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies—one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvest-ment, and reducing recidivism.http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10330.html

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong byBrandonL.Garrett.HarvardUniversityPress,2012.This books makes a powerful case for systemic reform to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases. Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing.http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674058705

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Reprint Edition) byBryanStevenson.Spiegel&Grau,2015.Just Mercy is at once an account of an idealis-tic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a window into the lives of those he has de-fended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.http://bryanstevenson.com/the-book/

Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law byMarianneConstable.PrincetonUniversityPress,2005.Is the Miranda Warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional “silence” of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to “protect” and “preserve”? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice.http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8096.html

Kafka’s Law: The Trial and American Criminal Justice byRobertP.Burns.UniversityofChicagoPress,2014.In his book, Kafka’s Law, Robert Burns shows how the trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. In the over-whelming majority of contemporary cases, police interrogation is followed by a plea bargain, in which the court’s only function is to set a largely predetermined sentence for an individual already presumed guilty. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo18507958.html

The Privilege of Silence: Fifth Amendment Protections Against Self-Incrimination (Second Edition) byPaulHynesJr.andStevenSalky.AmericanBarAssociationCriminalJusticeSection,2015.This book explains the contours of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in practice. The Privilege of Silence organizes the relevant case law so that lawyers may advise and represent their clients by focusing on the practical aspects of Fifth Amendment assertions in all proceedings.http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ ProductDetails.aspx?productId=184862102

SUGGESTEDRESOURCESAdultNonfictionBooks

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The State of Criminal Justice 2015 byMarkWojcik.AmericanBarAssociationCriminalJusticeSection,2015.This publication examines and reports on the major issues, trends, and significant changes in the criminal justice system. The 2015 vol-ume contains 19 chapters focusing on specific aspects of the criminal justice field, with summaries of all of the adopted official ABA policies passed in 2014 -2015 that address criminal justice issues.http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ ProductDetails.aspx?productId=203063010

A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in AmericabyEvanJ.Mandery.W.W.Norton&CompanyInc.,2014.Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, this book focuses on the story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in U.S. Supreme Court history: Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia. A Wild Justice is a behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the polit-ical complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.http://books.wwnorton.com/books/ A-Wild-Justice/

15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story(2015)15 to Life tells the story of Kenneth Young who, at fifteen years old, received four life sentences for armed robberies in which no one was injured. For over a decade Kenneth believed he would die behind bars, until in 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled life without parole sentences for children who haven’t killed unconstitutional. This documentary follows Kenneth’s legal battle for release in Tampa, Florida.

http://15tolifethefilm.com/

Gideon’s Army(2014)Gideon’s Army follows the personal stories of three young pub-lic defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point.

http://gideonsarmythefilm.com/

STOP: A film about stop and frisk in New York City (2015)STOP is a feature-length documentary about Floyd v. City of New York, the class-action lawsuit that challenged the New York City Police Department’s practice of stop & frisk and resulted in the landmark decision finding the practice unconstitutional.

http://stopthefilm.org/

The Central Park Five (2013)This film tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case from the perspective of the five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/

West of Memphis (2013)Filmmaker Amy Berg tells the story of the fight to stop the state of Arkansas from executing an innocent man. The film follows the events of the West Memphis Three, a case in which three teenagers were arrested for the murders of three 8-year-old children. The West Memphis Three were wrongly convicted of murder and remained in prison for more than 18 years.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/westofmemphis/

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SentencingProjectThe Sentencing Project was founded to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training to reduce reliance on incarcerations. The Sentencing Project publishes research and advocates for policy reform. The Sentencing Project website has an interactive map, with data by state, on felony disenfranchisement, collateral consequences, and sentencing policies.www.sentencingproject.org

TheBrennanCenterforJusticeThe Brennan Center’s Justice Program seeks to create a rational and effective criminal and civil justice system that treats all people fairly and equally by reducing mass incarceration, closing the justice gap, and ensuring racial equality within these systems.http://www.brennancenter.org/

CommunityOrientedPolicingServicesfromtheU.S.DepartmentofJusticeThe Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/policingtaskforce

TheNationalCenterforVictimsofCrimeThe National Center for Victims of Crime advocates for stronger rights, protections, and services for crime victims. Their website features data on crime trends, education and training opportunities, and current news on issues impacting victims of crime.https://www.victimsofcrime.org/home

TheOhioCivilImpactsofCriminalConvictions(CIVICC)CIVICC is a free, state-wide database that allows users to search for a criminal offense or type of offense, and to find out what legal bar-riers are likely to apply. Users may also search for a right or privilege of Ohio citizens and find out what types of criminal convictions might block a convicted person from having that right or privilege. http://civiccohio.org NorthCarolinaCollateralConsequencesAssessmentTool(C-Cat)C-CAT is a free, state-wide database that centralizes the collateral conse-quences imposed under North Carolina law for a criminal conviction and helps attorneys, other professionals, and affected individuals advise people more accurately and completely about the impact of a conviction.

http://ccat.sog.unc.edu

ShouldFormerFelonsHavetheRighttoVote?In this Talk of the Nation podcast, panelists discuss the recent moves in Florida and Iowa to make it harder for former felons to vote. This direc-tion differs from several other states that have tried to make the voting process easier for former felons. What are the implications of these laws?

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/16/156855043/should-ex-felons-have-the-right-to-vote

Bonding for ProfitIn this three-part series on National Public Radio, Laura Sullivan investigates the bail bond process in the U.S. criminal justice system.

http://www.npr.org/series/122954677/behind-the-bail-bond-system

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