Criminal System

Unlock the intricacies of modern law enforcement with "The Criminal Justice System," a comprehensive guide that delves into every facet of policing today. This indispensable eBook takes you on a detailed journey through the roles, challenges, and evolving paradigms that shape law enforcement across the globe. Begin with a rich historical backdrop and see how policing has transformed through various modern models. Understand the critical Constitutional protections that officers must navigate daily. Whether you are an aspiring police officer or simply passionate about criminal justice, our ...

Criminal defense attorneys lose potential clients not due to lack of legal skill, but because they've never learned systematic approaches to intake and sales that work with people in psychological crisis. Most attorneys treat arrested clients like typical consumers, applying traditional sales techniques that backfire catastrophically with traumatized individuals. "From Call to Client" provides the complete solution. Based on the author's experience building Ruane Attorneys from a 2 man practice into a multi-million-dollar criminal defense firm, this comprehensive guide teaches proven, ...

A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it. “A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back...

In 14 Years a Prisoner, Léo Maruin delivers a gripping, unflinching memoir of survival inside Thailand’s most notorious prisons. From the suffocating cells of Pattaya to the feared Bangkok Hilton, he takes you deep into a hidden world of violence, corruption, and humanity at its rawest. Condemned to over fourteen years in a brutal foreign justice system, Léo survives amid filth, overcrowding, and despair—finding strength in instinct, music, and rare human connection. With searing honesty, dark humor, and chilling detail, he exposes the merciless machinery of a world few would dare to ...

From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science.

In this bestselling thriller, after DNA evidence frees a sadistic killer, defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must put him behind bars before he strikes again. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.​ Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is...

From the author of the critically-acclaimed true crime account, A Killer By Design (the inspiration behind Hulu's original docuseries, Mastermind), a groundbreaking look into the crucial role played by expert witnesses in the most high-profile criminal cases, based on Dr. Ann Burgess’ personal...

James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but...

"Copaganda" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970—despite record low crime rates—a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of...

A MUST READ story of a small town doctor and his battle against an unjust legal system. "In the blink of an eye, Dr. Scott Geise went from respected small-town dentist to convicted felon. His crime? Trying to provide the best care for his patients. In this story you will find a chilling account of how an all-American success story became a nightmare of false accusations, legal manipulation, and ultimate betrayal. With raw honesty and dark humor, Geise recounts his journey from the heights of professional success to the depths of a federal prison cell. This gripping memoir exposes the ...

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira's masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

Criminal Trial Lawyer… Memoirs of Managing Chaos and embracing it. The book, sometimes humorously, describes my memoirs and adventures as a successful criminal trial lawyer both as Prosecutor and Defense Counsel. It begins as a child and explains the influences which made me a criminal trial lawyer driven by my desire to serve The Lady of Justice, Justicia. I fell in love with her and lived a Samurai of Justice love story. Beginning with a Trial Lawyers philosophy, I describe the entire chaotic thinking and acting process from meeting the client and trial preparation, through actual ...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham comes the harrowing true story of a Texas father condemned to die for a crime that never happened. John Grisham is known worldwide as the master of the legal thriller, and one of our most popular novelists, but his lifelong passion for...

A personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us—where we live, work, learn, and connect—shape our health, and how each of us can help create healthier communities. A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure reveals how social and...

“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW “A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR “Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he...

From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix’s The Staircase comes a “bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.” (The Guardian) “A fine companion to Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy and Emily Bazelon’s...

More people than ever are getting arrested - usually for petty offenses against laws that rarely used to be enforced. This eye-opening book tells you everything you need to know about how cops operate, the little things that can get you in trouble, and how to stay free from the hungry jaws of the criminal justice system. It is now updated with new and important information on the right of the police to search your car; on guns, knives, and self-defense; and on changes in surveillance methods.

The American legal system changed dramatically when the OJ Simpson trial became a television-ratings bonanza. Now it's all crime, all the time, from tabloid news to police procedurals. Americans now know more about the criminal justice system than ever before. Or do they?

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men.