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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess and Why We Believe Them by Saul Kassin

Duped: Why Innocent People Confess and Why We Believe Them

Saul Kassin

419 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology challenging informative sad medium-paced
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis

Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

Alec Karakatsanis

208 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff

Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Alexandra Natapoff

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative slow-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
By Hands Now Known by Margaret A. Burnham

By Hands Now Known

Margaret A. Burnham

12 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed

Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

Daniel S. Medwed

7 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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