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• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Human Rights and Pre-Trial Detention: A Handbook of International Standards Relating to Pre-Trial Detention (professional training series #3; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights and United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Les Lettres de Cachet: "Prisonniers de Famille" et "Placements Volontaires" (in French; Gand: A. Vander Haeghen, 1912), by Paul Sérieux and Lucien Libert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• Criminal Justice, New Technologies, and the Constitution (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Wrong Then, Wrong Now: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11, 2001 (Washington: Leadership Conference Education Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2003), by Carlos T. Angulo and Ronald Harris Weich (HTML and PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Combating Violent Crime: 24 Recommendations to Strengthen Criminal Justice (1992), by United States Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, contrib. by William Pelham Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentencing in Time (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2017), by Linda Meyer (HTML and PDF with commentary at Amherst (providing personal information is optional))
• The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (2014), by National Research Council Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, ed. by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, and F. Stevens Redburn (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Case for More Incarceration (1992), by United States Department of Justice Office of Policy and Communications, contrib. by William Pelham Barr, Steven R. Schlesinger, and Edward Himmelfarb (PDF with commentary at ojp.gov)
• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)
• Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)

• Murder in America: A History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Roger Lane (PDF at Ohio State)

• Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008), by Leslie Lytle (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)

• Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2010), by Jennifer Elsea (PDF with commentary at opencrs.com)
• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.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)

• State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons, 1996 (Washingon: US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000), by David J. Levin and Jodi M. Brown (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

• Justice on Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System (Washington: Leadership Conference Education Fund/ Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2000), by Ronald Harris Weich and Carlos T. Angulo (HTML at civilrights.org)
• Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Jody David Armour (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• 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)
• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)
• Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Houston: Rein and Sons Co., printers, 1910), by J. Vance Lewis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008), by Leslie Lytle (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)

• Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (New York and London: New York University Press, c2014), ed. by Franklin E. Zimring and David Spinoza Tanenhaus (PDF and HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood (Washington: Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017), by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia González (PDF at law.georgetown.edu)
• Reforming Juvenile Detention: No More Hidden Closets (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), ed. by Ira M. Schwartz and William H. Barton (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• On the Streets of America: Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson (2014), by Amnesty International (illustrated HTML and PDF at amnestyusa.org)
• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultures and Crimes: Policing in Four Nations (c2005), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos (PDF at Civitas)
• The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered, by Carol Moore (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence Gathering Capabilities: Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, September 9, 1976 (Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation before National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1968), by J. Edgar Hoover (page images at Preservica)

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