Books (General Readership)

The following are books that are useful as readers or for book report assignments. Please feel free to add additional titles in the comments section.

 

Active Liberty

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0307263134/002-1523136-0036840?v=glance

Actual Innocence

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451203658/qid%3D1029343202/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1334532-6018213
 

 Anatomy of Motive

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671023934/qid=1075402638//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-2449508-7352752?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Lifetime-Criminal-Defense-Lawyers/dp/0230614337/ref=pd_sim_b_5

College Students' Guide to the Law

http://www.amazon.com/College-Students-Guide-C-L-Lindsay/dp/1589790898/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011215&sr=1-4

Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins and Enron Thieves

http://www.amazon.com/Convictions-Prosecutors-Battles-Against-Kingpins/dp/0374531773/ref=pd_sim_b_4

A Cop's Life

http://www.amazon.com/Cops-Life-Stories-Heart-Behind/dp/0312940017/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Cops: Their lives in their own words

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671685511/qid=1029957796/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-2777705-2011124?s=books&n=507846

Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

http://www.amazon.com/Courtroom-302-American-Criminal-Courthouse/dp/0679752064/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688108237/qid%3D1029959449/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-2777705-2011124

Eyewitness Testimony

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674287770/ref=pd_sim_books/103-1334532-6018213

Fraternity Gang Rape

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814779026/qid=1029343686/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

How to Argue and Win Every Time

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312144776/qid=1029959118/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618087281/qid=1136483827/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7445806-9744127?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688128165/qid=1029344012/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/103-1334532-6018213

The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761913467/qid=1029958714/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-2777705-2011124

Last Chance for Justice: The Juror's Lonely Quest

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965711501/qid=1029861502/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-1334532-6018213

Law School Confidential: The Complete Guide to the Law School Experience

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031224309X/qid=1093374289/sr=ka-2/ref=pd_ka_2/102-0916068-4077719

Letters from Law School: The Life of a Second Year Law Student

http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Law-School-Second-Year-Student/dp/0595009751/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011645&sr=1-6

Lush Life

http://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Novel-Richard-Price/dp/0312428227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261960167&sr=8-1

The Making of a Cop

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671665251/qid=1029957918/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671528904/qid=1093374407/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-0916068-4077719

Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology

http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Trial-Great-Cases-Psychology/dp/019518176X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262015118&sr=8-3

Mystic River

http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-River-Dennis-Lehane/dp/0060584750/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262010059&sr=1-1

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312141238/ref=pd_sim_books/103-1334532-6018213

No Higher Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A Prosecutor Makes His Case

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Calling-Greater-Responsibility-Prosecutor/dp/1555916627/ref=pd_sim_b_1

No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

http://www.amazon.com/NO-MATTER-HOW-LOUD-SHOUT/dp/0684811952/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011645&sr=1-1

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

http://www.amazon.com/Picking-Cotton-Memoir-Injustice-Redemption/dp/0312376537/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Police Interrogation and American Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Police-Interrogation-American-Justice-Richard/dp/0674035313/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Portraits of Guilt: The Woman who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671034863/qid=1029861062/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office

http://www.amazon.com/Prosecutors-Year-District-Attorneys-Office/dp/0525947124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011828&sr=1-1

Snitches: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Snitching-Criminal-Informants-Erosion-American/dp/0814758509/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and the Ears of the State

http://www.amazon.com/Snitch-Culture-Citizens-Turned-State/dp/0922915636/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Surviving Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Justice-Wrongfully-Convicted-Exonerated/dp/1932416234/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393321886/qid=1029958435/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2777705-2011124

Trance on Trial

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898623405/qid=1029958053/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

True Blue: Police Stories by those Who have Lived Them

http://www.amazon.com/True-Blue-Police-Stories-Those/dp/0312995377/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011404&sr=1-4

True Stories of False Confessions

http://www.amazon.com/True-Stories-False-Confessions-Warden/dp/0810126036/ref=pd_sim_b_3

True Witness

http://www.amazon.com/True-Witness-Science-against-Misidentification/dp/1403964300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262010226&sr=1-1

With Justice for None

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140133259/qid=1029860752/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

Witness for the Defense

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312084552/qid=1029343507/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and The Norfolk Four

http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Guys-Murder-Confessions-Norfolk/dp/1595584013/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Inside the Mind of BTK

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Mind-BTK-Thirty-Year-Notorious/dp/0470325151/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283258625&sr=8-2

The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice

http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dealey-Plaza-American-assassination/dp/0307382028/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314713124&sr=8-1

Orange is the New Black

http://www.amazon.com/Orange-New-Black-Womens-Prison/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314713174&sr=1-1

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

http://www.amazon.com/Other-Wes-Moore-Name-Fates/dp/0385528205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314713209&sr=1-1