Reading List

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The Evil Within by Darren Galsworthy

I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Irreparable by Mark Gerardot

My Stolen Son by Susan Markowitz

No One is Perfect: The True Story of Candace Mossler and America’s Strangest Murder Trial by Ron Smith

Uncultured by Daniella Mastyanek

Fiction

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Fragments of the Lost, by Megan Miranda

Girls Like Us, Cristina Alger

Grace is Gone by Emily Elgar

The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena

The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell

The House We Grew Up In, by Lisa Jewell

The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware

Non-Fiction

A-E

Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham 

Burned,by Ed Humes

Charged by Emily Bazelon 

Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson

Death of Innocence: The Murder of Young Shanda Sharer, by David Lore

Ear Hustle by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

F-J

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Criminal Justice System, by Cyntoia Brown-Long

Hell in the Heartland, by Jax Miller

Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison by Bruce Western

If you Tell by Gregg Olsen

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Insane: America’s Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa Harrison

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 

K-R

The Ken and Barbie Killers by Peter Vronksy

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

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, by Robert Kolker

Lucky, by Alice Sebold

Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton

S-W

Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe

Small Sacrifices, by Ann Rule 

Smoke but no Fire, by Jessica Henry

White Rage by Carol Anderson

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverley Daniel Tatum

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Textbooks

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Personal Narrative Approach, by Alissa Ackerman, Meghan Sacks

Correctional Fundamentals: A Personal Narrative Approach Paperback, by O. Hayden Griffin and Meghan Sacks

Research

Expungement and Post-exoneration Offending

A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization Through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending

The Expungement Myth 75 Albany Law Review 2011-2012

Evaluations of Capacity to Waive Miranda Rights: A Survey of Practitioners’ Use of the Grisso Instruments – Nancy L. Ryba, Stanley L. Brodsky, Amy Shlosberg, 2007

Sensitivity of Error: An Examination of the Impact of Human Mistakes on Offender Risk Classification Validity

(PDF) Compensation statutes and post-exoneration offending