The Marshall Project presents…
The Picks of 2017 – The best criminal justice books we read this year
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
By Jessie Eisinger (2017)
A Colony in a Nation
By Chris Hayes (2017)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein (2017)
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
By Lauren-Brooke Eisen (2017)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (2017)
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
By John F. Pfaff (2017)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By James Forman Jr. (2017)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
By Jesmyn Ward (2017)
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
By Barry Friedman (2017)
When Police Kill
By Franklin E. Zimring (2017)