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1 Criminal Justice in America: Current Issues in Context Recommended Reading by Subject: Mass Incarceration David Brooks, The Prison Problem in The New York Times, September 29, E. Ann Carson, Prisoners in 2013 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 2014) Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association: Mass Incarceration: The Moment for Reform (New York: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, September 2015) Lauren E. Glaze and Danielle Kaeble, Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2014) Adam Gopnik, The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people? in The New Yorker, January 30, 2012 Todd Minton and Zhen Zeng, Jail Inmates at Midyear (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, June 2015) National Association of State Budget Officers, State Spending for Corrections: Long- Term Trends and Recent Criminal Justice Policy Initiatives (NASBO, September 11, 2013) Nicole D. Porter, The State of Sentencing 2014: Developments in Policy and Practice (Washington, D.C.: The Sentencing Project, February 2015) Ram Subramiam et al., Incarceration s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America (New York: Vera Institute of Justice, February 2015).

2 Alcohol and Other Drugs Drug Policy Alliance, Drug Courts Are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use (New York: Drug Policy Alliance, March 2011) Jennifer C. Karberg and Doris J. James, Substance Dependence, Abuse, and Treatment of Jail Inmates, 2002 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2005) Justice Policy Institute, Addicted to Courts: How a Growing Dependence on Drug Courts Impacts People and Communities (Washington, D.C.: Justice Policy Institute, March 2011) Wrongful Convictions Jon B. Gould, The Innocence Commission (New York: New York University Press, 2008) C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, and Edward Sagarin, Convicted but Innocent (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996) Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (New York: Doubleday, 2000) Dealing with Minor Offenses Robert C. Boruchowitz, Malia N. Brink, and Maureen Dimino, Minor Crimes, Massive Waste: The Terrible Toll of America s Broken Misdemeanor Courts (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, April 2009) Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors in 85 Southern California Law Review 101 (2012)

3 Eve Brensike Primus, Our Broken Misdemeanor Justice System: Its Problems and Some Solutions in 86 Southern California Law Review Postscript (2013) Jenny Roberts, Why Misdemeanors Matter: Defining Effective Advocacy in the Lower Criminal Courts in 45 University of California, Davis Law Review (2011) Alisa Smith and Sean Madden, Three-Minute Justice: Haste and Waste in Florida s Misdemeanor Courts (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, July 2011) U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, March 2015) Re-Entry Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha, and Rebekah Diller, Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2010) Anna Crayton et al., Partnering with Jails to Improve Reentry: A Guidebook for Community-Based Organizations (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, August 2010) Nathan James, Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration into the Community, and Recidivism (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 2015) Amy L. Solomon et al., Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community (Washington, D.C. The Urban Institute, May 2008) Money and Justice Chris Albin-Lackey, Profiting from Probation: America s Offender-Funded Probation Industry (New York: Human Rights Watch, February 2014)

4 Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha, and Rebekah Diller, Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2010) Alex Bender et al., Not Just a Ferguson Problem: How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California (San Francisco: Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, 2015) Spike Bradford, For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice (Washington, D.C.: Justice Policy Institute, September 2012) Jamie Fellner, The Price of Freedom: Bail and Detention of Low Income Nonfelony Defendants in New York City (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2010) Jennifer Gonnerman, Before the Law in The New Yorker, October 6, 2015 Eric Markowitz, Chain Gang 2.0: If You Can t Afford This GPS Ankle Bracelet, You Get Thrown in Jail in International Business Times, September 22, 2015 Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Maureen R. Waller, Taxing the Poor: Incarceration, Governance, and the Seizure of Family Resources in American Political Science Association Perspectives on Politics, September 2015 Melissa Neal, Bail Fail: Why the U.S. Should End the Practice of Using Money for Bail (Washington, D.C.: Justice Policy Institute, September 2012) Roopal Patel and Meghna Philip, Criminal Justice Debt: A Toolkit for Action (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2012) Carl Reynolds et al., A Framework to Improve How Fines, Fees, Restitution, and Child Support are Assessed and Collected from People Convicted of Crimes (New York and Austin, TX: Council of State Governments Justice Center and Texas Office of Court Administration, 2009)

5 Race and Justice Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2010, 2012) Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration in The Atlantic, October 2015 Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (Washington, D.C.: The Sentencing Project, February 2015) Marc Mauer and Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Incorporating Racial Equity Into Criminal Justice Reform (Washington, D.C.: The Sentencing Project, October 2014) Kelefa Sanneh, Body Count in The New Yorker, September 14, 2015

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