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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
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Ron Powers (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 4,237 ratings
score: 197,
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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
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4.19 avg rating — 8,970 ratings
score: 100,
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The End of Policing
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4.18 avg rating — 12,213 ratings
score: 99,
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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4.34 avg rating — 6,677 ratings
score: 98,
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 258,872 ratings
score: 96,
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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Maya Schenwar (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
score: 95,
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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4.24 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
score: 94,
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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Shane Bauer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 12,696 ratings
score: 93,
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
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4.44 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
score: 92,
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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4.30 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
score: 91,
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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Emily Bazelon (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
score: 90,
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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4.64 avg rating — 5,922 ratings
score: 89,
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
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4.05 avg rating — 925 ratings
score: 88,
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Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
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4.48 avg rating — 593 ratings
score: 87,
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Poverty, by America
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 59,733 ratings
score: 86,
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,599 ratings
score: 85,
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
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4.53 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
score: 84,
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