- Clarence Darrow: Attorney For The Damned - John A. Farrell
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Carol Tavris - not strictly about law, but fascinating discussion of cognitive dissonance & false evidence
- 24 Hours With 24 Lawyers, Jasper Kim - includes insight into criminal law.
- Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse, Steve Bogira - comprehensive, disturbing, riveting
- The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, William J. Stuntz - the classic scholarly analysis of America’s incarceration problem. Gigantic but profound.
- Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, Paul Butler - damning perspective on the racial and class biases of the US criminal justice system.
- Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover: a journalist spends a year as a prison officer in a high security prison; it’s brave, unbiased, and horrifying. Also see this excellent article.
- References - Criminal Law
; Theories of Criminal Law, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy; Cornell’s Legal Information Institute.
- Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial - Janet Malcolm
- The Defense Never Rests, F. Lee Bailey: dated (1970s), but fascinating. (and yes, he was one of OJ’s - many - lawyers).
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