Report on one of the books mentioned.
Reading
Required textbook
One book is required for all students on the course, available at the university bookshop or on Amazon:
Lab, S.P., Williams, M. R., Holcomb, J. E., Burek, M. W., King, W. R., & Buerger, M. E.
(2019). Criminal justice: The essentials (5th edition). Oxford University Press.
Other readings will be distributed or are available through Rutgers’ library.
Book review book list
Each student will be required to read one of the books below, and to write a book review (more details below):
Policing
Brayne, S. (2020). Predict and surveil: Data, discretion, and the future of policing. Oxford University
Press, USA.
Moskos, P. (2009). Cop in the Hood. Princeton University Press. Worden, R. E., & McLean, S. J. (2017). Mirage of police reform. University of California Press. (free
e-book from: University of California Press (luminosoa.org).
Courts
Bach, A. (2009). Ordinary injustice: How America holds court. New York: Metropolitan Books. Bazelon, E. (2019). Charged: The new movement to transform American prosecution and to end ma incarceration. New York: Random House.
Kohler-Hausmann, I. (2018). Misdemeanorland. Princeton University Press. Corrections
Fader, J. J. (2013). Falling back. Rutgers University Press. Page, J. (2011). The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment and the Prison Officers Union in
California. Oxford University Press.
Race / inequality
Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of color-blindness. New York
The New Press.
Das, A. (2020). No justice in the shadows. How America criminalizes immigrants. New York: Bold
Type.
Muhammad, K. G. (2011). The condemnation of Blackness: Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 6 pages double spaced needed. Problem statement and sample attached
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