Sentencing and punishment Books

"The purpose of this Little Book is to identify some characteristic features of the Bible's teaching on justice. "The Bible has had a profound impact on the development of Western culture. So exploring biblical perspectives on justice can help us...

The Rule-Out Method of Criminal Defense brings defense advocacyback to its intended strengths, teaching readers how to find and show plentifulreasonable doubts that counsel most often misses. This book showcases how toavoid common practices that cause...

Creating Restorative Learning Experiences OnlineTeaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorative justice processes, trainings, and classes to virtual...

With a foreword by Bruce WesternNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRShortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeThe most comprehensive critique of probation and parole-and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing...

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims' rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head of Alliance for Safety and Justice When...

Finalist, Colorado Book AwardA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what's at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence-and what we can do about it rule was meant to transform the U.S. justice system. In soaring language,...

Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionistsAs Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman...

A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts "An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the...

The word "dialogue" suffers from over-use, yet its practice is as transforming and as freshly hopeful as ever. Authors Schirch and Campt demonstrate dialogue's life and possibilities in this clear and absorbing manual: "Dialogue allows people in conflict...

So we'd all like a more peaceful world-no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes. Lisa Schirch sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence of conflict...