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The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It by Heather K. Gerken 9780691154374
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close... -
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Margot Canaday 9780691215303
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited... -
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited... -
Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry by Keesha M. Middlemass 9780814724392
Booksplease Price: £90.57Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling... -
Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry by Keesha M. Middlemass 9780814770627
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling... -
Who Really Killed Nicole?: O.J. Simpson's Closest Confidant Tells All by Norman Pardo
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The True Story Behind the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, from O.J. Simpson's Closest Confidante It's the greatest crime story ever to play out on national television-the murders of... -
Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725 by Robert B. Shoemaker 9780521068765
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21The law was one of the most potent sources of authority and stability in early modern England. Historians, however, have argued over whether the discretion and flexibility embodied in the judicial... -
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States by Ali Velshi 9780063382589
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district... -
No Tea, No Shade: Life as a Drag Queen by Kennedy Ann Scott 9780063430556
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.75"No Tea, No Shade is an essential read for anyone who has searched for a way to feel like themselves." -- BooklistIntimate, hilarious, and inspiring essays by celebrated drag queens Kennedy Ann... -
Dilbert and the Way of the Weazel: A Guide to Outwitting Your Boss, Your Co-Workers and the Other Pants-Wearing Ferrets in Your Life by Scott Adams 9780060521493
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42In a hilarious new look at the world of American business, the author of "The Dilbert Principle" builds on the popular comic strip to profile the "Weasel Zone," a gray area between moral behavior and... -
Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know by Lawrence J. Fennelly 9780128094860
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £51.40Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition, explores the essential tips and techniques for security investigations, providing a useful reference for those at any stage of their... -
Chu, Volume 1: First Course by John Layman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Tony Chu is a cibopath, able to get psychic impressions from what he eats. Saffron Chu is a cibopars, able to learn secrets from who she eats with. Tony is a cop. Saffron is a criminal. They are... -
America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy by Desmond Meade 9781501763748
Booksplease Price: £4.26The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations... -
The Gideon Case: Inside the Supreme Court's Historic Right to Counsel Decision Bruce R. Jacob 9780813079547
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.20The complete history of the pivotal legal battle before the Supreme Court that established the right to a public defender and reshaped the American justice system, written by a lawyer closely... -
Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law by Judith Hudson
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. Crime and... -
Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays by Randall Horton 9780810144637
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.18Dead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the... -
The Autobiography of Maud Gonne by Maud Gonne MacBride 9780226302522
Booksplease Price: £24.80Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in... -
Cruel and Usual by Rudolph J. Gerber 9780275964757
Booksplease Price: £76.51Judges and courts do a considerable amount of harm in applying some criminal laws and policies, such as the felony murder rule, mandatory sentences, and the drug war. These and other positivist... -
Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris 9780152062279
Booksplease Price: £8.95Sandy Huntington-Ackerman's life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, money grabbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune by poisoning a birthday cake. Luckily, those conniving... -
Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in Tennessee: 1960-2014 by Gerald K. Fosten 9781498559201
Booksplease Price: £81.47This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private... -
Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-era Draft Resister by 9780826514950
Booksplease Price: £37.44At the height of the Vietnam War, Jerry Elmer committed his first felony by refusing to register for the draft. Over the next 20 years, using nonviolent tactics, Jerry worked for peace, justice, and... -
Law Enforcement Body Armor: Background & Federal Support For Use by Alicia E. Malloy 9781611229882
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £54.29Firearms are one of the leading causes of deaths for law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty. Since FY1999, Congress has provided funding to state and local law enforcement... -
Police Pursuit Driving: Controlling Responses to Emergency Situations by Geoffrey P. Alpert 9780313272615
Booksplease Price: £61.63Police strategies often develop from custom and practice without guidance from empirical research. Police officers often make their decisions based upon information and tactics with which they are... -
Letters to Windsor House by Sh!t Theatre .. 9781786820891
Booksplease Price: £12.27A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people's mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance... Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work:... -
Rehabilitating Criminal Sexual Psychopaths: Legislative Mandates, Clinical Quandaries by Nathaniel J. Pallone
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49More than half the states in the US have legislation on sex offenders that distinguishes between those whose offense is incidental to other offenses ("felony" sexual offenders), and those who engage... -
A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen 9781108060738
Booksplease Price: £49.54Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-94) published this three-volume account of the English criminal law's historical development in 1883, four years after his appointment as a judge of the High Court... -
Femicide and the Law: American Criminal Doctrines by Hava Dayan
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores femicide, and scrutinizes the three key American criminal doctrines usually applied in its cases: provocation; the felony murder rule; self-defence. The book also explores the... -
The Medieval Coroner by R.F. Hunnisett 9780521079433
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67The office of coroner was established in England in 1194; it has had an unbroken history, and has been exported to many countries, including the United States. At the zenith of his power, in the... -
Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology by Jan-Melissa Schramm 9780521026352
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled... -
Yorkshire Sessions of the Peace, 1361-1364 by Bertha Haven Putnam 9781108058858
Booksplease Price: £28.58The period 1361-4, when these five court rolls from Yorkshire were compiled, was an important era in medieval English jurisprudence, as the older system of keepers of the peace was transformed into... -
Once Upon a Crime: I Grew Up in Britain's Hardest City, Where the Only Way to Survive Was on Your Wits. by Jimmy Cryans 9781843587606
Booksplease Price: £10.29Robbery was never a choice for Jimmy, but a way of life. The characters and criminals he met along the way coloured his experience of a lifestyle many would condemn, a lifestyle he strives to explain... -
Recantation and Domestic Violence: The Untold Story Amy Bonomi (Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center) 9781032391670
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Recantation and Domestic Violence empowers people and communities in improving their understanding of and skills in domestic violence cases that involve recantation. This book illustrates the precise... -
Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels by Dennis Massey 9780313266355
Booksplease Price: £75.81This is a study of novels by Chester Himes, Malcolm Braly, and others on the experience of doing time in American prisons. The authors are all convicts or ex-convicts who were not professional... -
Kayford Haunting by Leonard Adams 9780557014514
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £15.67When a West Virginia coal mining town begins experiencing mysterious visits from strange men and coinciding incidents of horror, apprehension grips the community. The strangers arrive on foot via the... -
Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis by David H. Cropley 9781107024854
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.80Creativity is typically perceived to be a positive, constructive attribute and yet, highly effective, novel crimes are committed which illustrate that creativity can also be utilised to serve a... -
Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis by David H. Cropley 9781107562516
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78Creativity is typically perceived to be a positive, constructive attribute and yet, highly effective, novel crimes are committed which illustrate that creativity can also be utilised to serve a... -
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Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental" by Amy Sueyoshi
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce... -
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins 9780312429690
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Eddie Coyle is a small-time punk with a big-time problem - who to sell out to avoid being sent up again. Eddie works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop... -
The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons by Elizabeth Hull 9781592131853
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Provides an overview of the history, nature, and consequences of ex-felon disenfranchisement in the United StatesProvides an overview of the history, nature, and consequences of ex-felon... -
Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism by Andrew Dilts
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote,...