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• Black Rage Confronts the Law (New York: New York University Press, c1997), by Paul Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

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• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)
• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Liberty's Shadow: U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers in the Era of Homeland Security (New York: Human Rights First, 2004), by Eleanor Acer and Archana Pyati (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (full serial archives)

• Federal Offenders in the United States District Courts (full serial archives)
• Federal Prisons, by United States Bureau of Prisons (full serial archives)

• Deterrence and the Death Penalty (Washington: National Academies Press, c2012), by National Research Council Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, ed. by Daniel Nagin and John Pepper (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2007), by Alan W. Clarke and Laurelyn Whitt (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited (c2005), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2003), by John D. Bessler (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases and What Can be Done About Them (two parts, 2000 and 2002), by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West (PDF files with commentary at the Justice Project)
• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty (c2001), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: "A Macabre Assembly Line of Death": Death Penalty Developments in 1997 (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: Death Penalty Developments in 1996 (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Capital Punishment in the United States (reprint of U-Pennsylvania dissertation; Philadelphia: Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia, Yearly meeting of Friends, 1919), by Raymond T. Bye (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook (electronic edition, 1999), by United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (HTML and PDF at uscourts,gov)

• America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way (with an added preface; Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2005), by John F. Galliher, Larry Wayne Koch, David P. Keys, and Teresa J. Guess (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases and What Can be Done About Them (two parts, 2000 and 2002), by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West (PDF files with commentary at the Justice Project)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• By the Neck Until Dead: A History of Hangings in Cuyahoga County, by John Stark Bellamy (illustrated HTML with commentary at clevelandmemory.org)

• Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited (c2005), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)

• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)
• A Review of the Department of Energy Classification Policy and Practice (1995), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)

• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited (c2005), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• Evidence: Impeachment by Evidence of a Criminal Conviction (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2013), by Colin Miller (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, by United States Supreme Court
  • PDF at uscourts.gov
  • HTML at Cornell
• Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College/University Campuses (revised edition, 2003), by United States Community Relations Service
  • HTML at justice.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College/University Campuses (2000), by United States Community Relations Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, by United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (HTML at Albany)
• Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (2 volumes; Washington: National Academies Press, 1986), ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II: page images with commentary at NAP

• International Terrorism, 1985: Hearings and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, and on International Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2822, March 5, 21, and June 25, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Provisional Laws and Joint Resolutions Passed at the First and Called Sessions of the General Assembly of Jefferson Territory (1860), by Jefferson Territory (page images at Google)

• A Manual of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for Police (1931), by Ernst W. Puttkammer (PDF files at Northwestern)

• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• Special Report of the Board of State Commissioners for the General Supervision of Charitable, Penal, Pauper, and Reformatory Institutions, by Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities (page images at MOA)

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