Green River LibGuides: One Book 2024-25: The Power of Story: Criminal Justice

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Criminal Justice

"The evidence shows that incarceration, the most common form of criminal punishment, does not deter criminality. Incarceration increases the likelihood that an offender will reoffend, it doesn’t decrease it. Jails don’t fix criminals. Jails make criminals. And so the justice system is self-perpetuating. It is in the business of creating criminals. That’s the evidence. The persistent story, however, is that the justice system protects people from criminals."

- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 41

Criminal Justice

Featured Multimedia Resources

Podcasts

The Appeal
The Appeal is a podcast, hosted by Adam Johnson, on criminal justice reform, abolition and everything in between. Each week we will feature fascinating interviews with those covering, working in, and most affected by the American criminal system; from lawyers to activists to reporters to the formerly incarcerated. The Appeal will unpack the latest efforts to shine a light on––and radically rethink––the largest prison state in the world.
Ear Hustle Podcast
Podcast from San Quentin Prison: "The daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration"
Justice In America (Podcast)
"Justice in America, hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith, is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform— from those new to the system to experts who want to know more."
Podcast: The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.
Pod Save the People (Podcast)
"On Pod Save the People, DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson and De’Ara Balenger. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color."
Prison Journalism Project
"The Prison Journalism Project’s mission is to empower the incarcerated through storytelling and journalism. .. The cycle of mass incarceration and poverty is inextricably linked. There are currently about 2.3 million people in prisons and jails across the United States. Each incarceration economically disrupts the lives of the men and women behind bars and the families and communities they leave behind. This often triggers a cycle of poverty and incarceration in future generations."
Unprisoned
Unprisoned is a podcast and radio show telling stories at the intersection of human lives and the criminal legal system.
Voices of Reentry
Voices of Reentry is a project that invites formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and, through storytelling and community dialogue, engages the public in conversation about the role we can all play in welcoming returning citizens into our communities.

Videos

The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline
Streaming on Films on Demand: "This panel traces the path to prison that many minority children begin traveling in early childhood."
Jim Crow Juvenile Justice
A 2018 video from the Youth First Initiative
Pandemic Shines Light on Racial Disparities in Mental Health Care
A short news clip from NBC4 Washington
TED Talks: A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System
A 2016 TED Talk by Adam Foss
What's The Story? Criminal Justice and Storytelling A 2019 video from The Marshall Project

Featured Online Resources

Black Lives Matter (website)
"Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes."
Center for Policing Equity
"The Center for Policing Equity is a research center founded at University of California-Los Angeles and now based at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice."
Dismantling Racism Works
Founded in 2005, this organization works to promote anti-racist support resources. Search the cite by listed topics.
Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Innocence Project
A search result list of sources from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Law Enforcement Accountability Project
"The goal of LEAP is to elevate activist storytelling around police brutality and murder through funding short-term projects in film, theater, photography, fine art, music, poetry, literature, sculpture and dance. Change begins with the stories we tell each other about the police and Black people."
The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
"The NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice."
Racial Equality Resource Guide
Created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this online guide provides an array of resources aimed at Racial Equity
The Sentencing Project
"Mission: The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by producing groundbreaking research to promote reforms in sentencing policy, address unjust racial disparities and practices, and to advocate for alternatives to incarceration."
Southern Poverty Law Center
"The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."
Stop Police Brutality Now
"The purpose of our STOP Police Brutality Now initiative is to gather reports of credible allegations of police misconduct so policymakers (and others) can make informed assessments regarding the nature and circumstances of police misconduct, and consider proposals that can minimize wrongdoing."
StoryCorps: Justice Project Stories
"Through the Justice Project, StoryCorps preserves and amplifies the stories of people who have been directly impacted by mass incarceration."

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Judeo-Christian Foundations of American Penology
A chapter from the book "Islam in American Prisons : Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology" Kusha, Hamid Reza

Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism by Bronwyn Carlson, Jeff Berglund
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2021
Indigenous People and Criminal Justice by Justin Healey
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Native Americans, Crime, and Justice by Nielsen, Marianne O, Silverman, Robert A., Alvarez, Alex
Call Number: 364.3497 N2781 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country by Marianne O. Nielsen, Karen Jarratt-Snider
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2018
Slouching Toward Tyranny: Mass Incarceration, Death Sentences and Racism by Joseph B. Ingle
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2015
What We Know: Solutions from our Experiences in the Justice System by Eds. Vivian Nixon & Daryl Atkinson ProQuest Ebooks A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America’s criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experiences.
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2020
Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America by Doran Larson (Editor)
Call Number: 365.973 F781 2013
ISBN: 9781611861075
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Featured Articles

Featured Background Articles

These background or overview articles are useful for defining and understanding the history and key concepts of a topic. They come from subject-specific books and reports and aim to help you understand the basics. Find more articles like these in the databases Gale Ebooks, Opposing Viewpoints, or CQ Researcher.

American Indians and Crime: Community, Historical, and Family Relationships
A 2016 article from "People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration"
Criminal Justice
A 2021 article from "Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences"
Criminal Justice System
An article from the "Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History"
Criminal Victimization of Native Americans
An article from "American Indians at Risk"
Latinas and the U.S. Criminal Justice System
A 2016 article from "Latinos and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia"

Scholarly Journal Articles

Scholarly journal articles are written by scholars/experts/researchers for others in their field with the aim of sharing, reviewing, and building new information. These publications can give us insight into the ways that these larger topics are being studied at a research-based, academic levels. Find more articles like these in ProQuest Combined, Agricola, OR Global Issues in Context, or see the "Dig Deeper into Your Research" tab for more databases

Indigenous Incarceration in Canada: A Glance at Gladue Policy "In the 1990s, Canada initiated a series of reforms to the criminal justice system centred around alleviating the egregious level of incarcerated Indigenous people." This article argues for more funding and stricter implementation of the resulting principles to "accomplish its objectives of considering the systemic circumstances of Indigenous offenders and providing criminal justice in a culturally appropriate manner." From the Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023.
Unsettled Times: Indigenous Incarceration and the Links between Colonialism and the Penitentiary in Canada
From the Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2019.
The Transformative Community: Gathering the Untold Stories of Collaborative Research and Community Re-integration for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples, Post-Incarceration and Beyond "The THJRC is a transdisciplinary, Peer- and Elder-led, cross-sector and community-driven net-work of academic and Peer researchers, Elders, orga-nizational stakeholders and community leaders and advocates, all of whom are committed to transform-ing research and supporting the health, wellbeing and dignity of all people who are or have been incar-cerated in [blinded] and Canada. We are a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, some with formal education and others bringing expertise and wisdom gathered outside university walls."
Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing
Dhillon, Jaskiran. 2015. “Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing.” Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education, and Society 4(2): 1-31.

Sources Referred to in the Text

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Johnson, Harold R.. The Power of Story : On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, Biblioasis, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/greenriver-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7021674.