RACE & THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
This page focuses on the criminal justice topics of excessive bail and fines, mass incarceration, and the policing issues of, excessive force and brutality, which disproportionately impact Black Americans. Explore these issues by reading the books and watching the videos below about the impact of the laws involving mass incarceration and policing upon race.
BOOKS AT TUC LIBRARY: CIVIL RIGHTS, LAW, & REFORM BACKGROUND
Civil Liberties and the State: A Documentary and Reference Guide by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Freedom's Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, 2nd Edition by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis And The Power Of Hope, 1st ed. by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Metaracism: Explaining the Persistence of Racial Inequality, 1st ed. by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present, 2nd ed. by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
BOOKS AT TUC LIBRARY: EXCESSIVE FORCE, FINES, & SENTENCING
Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, 1st ed. by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
THE 4th AMENDMENT: SEARCH & SEIZURE
The 4th Amendment Explained (5:19)
THE 8th AMENDMENT: EXCESSIVE BAIL, EXCESSIVE FINES, CRUEL & UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
Is the U.S. Bail System Fair? (6:47)
BOOKS AT TUC LIBRARY: PRISONS & MASS INCARCERATION
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK*
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Locked In: the True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement: My Story of Transformation and Hope by ISBN: 9781443458351Publication Date: 2019
Start Here: A Roadmap to Reducing Mass Incarceration by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Understanding Mass Incarceration : a people's guide to the key civil rights struggle of our time by *ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.*
Until We Reckon: VIolence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
THE 13th AMENDMENT: SLAVERY & INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE
What Is: The Thirteenth Amendment (3:08)
13th: Full Feature Film from Netflix (1:40:02)
The Future of Race in America - Michelle Alexander - TEDxColumbus (23:38)
How The School-To-Prison Pipeline Functions - The Root (2:00)
Disrupting the School To Prison Pipeline - Benjamin Williams - TEDx Foggy Bottom (11:09)
School to Prison Pipeline - Youth For RISE Advocacy Network - TEDxYouth at RVA (7:14)
What Prosecutors And Incarcerated People Can Learn From Each Other - Jarrell Daniels - TED (12:04)
How We Can Make Racism a Solvable Problem, and Improve Policing - Dr. Philip Atiba Goff - TED2019 (12:04)