Poverty Crime

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 918 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • By: Robert Cormier
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Best-selling author Robert Cormier's suspenseful and masterfully told novel takes bold steps into some of the most difficult topical territory ever conceived for young adult fiction....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • A Guide on Confronting Pathology, Combating Systemic Injustice, and Improving Mental Health
    • By: DC Cannon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Blacks are 13% but commit half of the crime!" Using statistics, facts, charts, arguments never heard before, and common sense, this book factually...

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    • By: Lyndsay Faye
    • Narrated by: Steven Boyer
    • Series: A Timothy Wilde Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303 ratings
    • It is 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever....

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    • The Criminalization of Poverty in America
    • By: Peter Edelman
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today....

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    • By: James Allen
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current....

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    • By: Victor Hugo
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Les Miserables is set in the Parisian underworld. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread....

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    • A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder
    • By: Neal Wooten
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce....

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    • By: James M. Cain
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 560 ratings
    • Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
    • Narrated by: Angela Lin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force—the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own....

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    • A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
    • By: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
    • Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....

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    • By: Melanie Sumrow
    • Narrated by: Melanie Sumrow, January LaVoy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.

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    • By: Carl Deuker
    • Narrated by: Zachary Roe, Zach Roe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • But the weather-beaten sailboat Chance Taylor and his father call home is thirty years old and hasn’t sailed in years. One step from both homelessness and hunger, Chance worries about things other kids his age never give a thought....

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    • How Economic Inequality Fuels Criminal Behavior and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • Unlock the hidden connections between economy and crime with "Socioeconomic Roots of Crime." This groundbreaking eBook explores the intricate web ...

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    • A Killing on Bay Street
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • A riveting work of literary journalism that explores the infamous police killing of Eric Garner - from the New York Times best-selling author of The Divide....

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    • By: Bryan Bliss
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Luke and Toby have always had each other's backs. But then one choice - or maybe it is a series of choices - sets them down an irrevocable path. We'll Fly Away weaves together Luke and Toby's senior year of high school with letters Luke writes to Toby later - from death row....

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    • A Mystery, Suspense, Crime Thriller
    • By: Micheal Maxwell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Can the Black Sheep of the Family be its Guardian Angel? Cole Dust opens with inheriting a farm in the small town of Orvin, Oklahoma from a cousin ...

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