Research Guides: Administration of Justice: Books

FEATURED BOOKS

Ghost: My Thirty Years as an Undercover FBI Agent by Michael McGowan; Ralph Pezzullo
Call Number: HV8144.F43 M39 2018
The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael R. McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. And of those,less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work.Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests.

Tough Cases by Russell Canan (Editor); Frederick Weisberg (Editor); Gregory Mize (Editor)
Call Number: KF220 .T66 2018
In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent.

The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book by Patricia Barnes-Svarney; Thomas E. Svarney
Call Number: HV8073 .B358 2019
Provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies. It looks at the science of law enforcement, how evidence is gathered, processed, analyzed, and viewed in the courtroom, and more. From the cause, manner, time of a death, and autopsies to blood, toxicology, DNA typing, fingerprints, ballistics, tool marks, tread impressions, and trace evidence, it takes the reader through the many sides of a death investigation. Arson, accidents, computer crimes, criminal profiling, and much, much more are also addressed. It provides the history of the science, and it introduces the scientists behind breakthroughs. An easy-to-use and informative reference, it brings the complexity of a criminal investigation into focus and provides well-researched answers to over 950 common questions...

Police Exams Prep Plus 2018-2019 by Kaplan Test Prep
Call Number: HV8143 .P6336 2018
Kaplan's Police Exams Prep 2018-2019 is your guide to acing the entrance exams for police departments across the United States. With up-to-date content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Police Exams Prep is your complete guide to becoming a police officer. Kaplan is so certain that Police Exams Prep offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our book, you'll pass the police exams--or you'll get your money back. Comprehensive Review 4 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations Diagnostic quiz to identify your strengths and weaknesses End-of-chapter quizzes Concise content review and test-taking strategies to help you make the most of your time Expert Guidance Kaplan's expert psychometricians make sure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test. We invented test prep--Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.

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race relations

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self-incrimination & confessions

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REFERENCE BOOKS

Battleground: Criminal Justice
Call Number: HV7411 .B38 2007 Volumes 1-2
Crime Classification Manual
Call Number: E-BOOK
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Call Number: HV6017 .E52 2002 Volumes 1-4
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
Call Number: HV8073 .C595 2002
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
Call Number: HV7921 .E53 2005 Volumes 1-3
Encyclopedia of Police Science
Call Number: HV7901 .E53 2007
Forensic Science
Call Number: HV8073 .F5837 2009 Volumes 1-3
Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation by Barry A. J. Fisher; David R. Fisher; Tom Bevel; Tom Gardner
Call Number: E-BOOK

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Communities, Identities and Crime by Basia Spalek
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781847429582
Publication Date: 2007
Criminal Justice: A Beginner’s Guide
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781908162687
Publication Date: 2015
History and Crime by Barry S. Godfrey; Paul Lawrence; Chris A. Williams
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781849202350
Publication Date: 2009
Police Interrogation and American Justice by Richard A. Leo
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780674033702
Publication Date: 2009
Speaking of Crime by Lawrence M. Solan; Peter M. Tiersma
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780226767871
Publication Date: 2010
Tried and Convicted by Michael D. Cicchini
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781442217195
Publication Date: 2012
Understanding Criminal Investigation by Stephen Tong; Robin P. Bryant; Miranda A. H. Horvath
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780470682371
Publication Date: 2009

BOOKS ON THE SHELF

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Call Number: E185.61 .A5438 2016
Historian Carol Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage.
Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases by James Garbarino
Call Number: HV6529 .G37 2015
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood.
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
Call Number: HV6534.N5 C67 2015
New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop―a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.”
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Call Number: HV6768 .S65 2016
Perplexed as to why people who seemingly had it all would risk it all just to acquire more, Eugene Soltes began an investigation into the mind of the corporate criminal. His journey into this netherworld included intense and lengthy personal interactions with the famous (such as Bernie Madoff, executives from Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and McKinsey) as well as those who are lesser known...
Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing
Call Number: HV7936.C83 B76 2013
Written for students, members of the police community, academicians, elected officials and members of the public, this work comes from the perspective of an individual who devoted his life to law enforcement. Dr. Brown began his career as a beat patrolmen who through hard work, diligence and continued education became the senior law enforcement official in three of this nation's largest cities.
Racial Profiling
Call Number: HV7936.R3 R36 2015
Racial Profiling explores the most recent issues related to racial profiling, including whether racial profiling is a problem; Arab Muslims and profiling in the war on terror; causes and consequences of racial profiling; and what to do about racial profiling.
White Privilege and Black Rights by Naomi Zack
Call Number: HV7936.R3 Z33 2015
Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis.
Spy the Lie
Call Number: HV8078 .S66 2013
Three former CIA officers--among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior--share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth.
The War on Cop: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Call Number: HV8139 .M34 2016
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993...The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of "mass incarceration.
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Call Number: HV8141 .W46 2016
This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against black, brown, indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against calling the police.
So You Want to Be a Cop by Alley Evola
Call Number: HV8143 .E96 2017
Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer.
Profiling and Criminal Justice in America
Call Number: HV9950 .B86 2015
An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice system-one of the most hotly contested public policy issues-on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of America.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016
In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system?
Armed in America by Patrick J. Charles
Call Number: KF3941 .C49 2018
This accessible legal history describes how the Second Amendment has been interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the constitutional right to bear arms.
How Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room by James L. Trainum
Call Number: KF9664 .T73 2016
This book takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people can become suspects and then confessed criminals even when they have not committed a crime.

"American Policing in 2022"

From the US Dept of Justice, "twenty-seven essays by experts with policing backgrounds offer experience-based predictions and cautions on such topics as police and community partnering, understanding and improving measurements of effectiveness, and managing technology."

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