Resources

Books

Justice While Black
by Robin Shipp, Esq and Nick Chiles

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Paperback – June 7, 2011 by Harvey Silverglate (Author), Alan M. Dershowitz (Foreword)

The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Paperback – March 25, 2008 by Paul Craig Roberts (Author), Lawrence M. Stratton (Author)

Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything by Gene Healy

One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty
Paperback – March 30, 2010 by Paul Rosenzwieg  (Author), Brian W. Walsh (Author)

Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Hardcover – February 25, 2014 by Lisa Bloom (Author)

Website Book Excerpts

Fighting For Your Life
This is a criminal justice survival guide specifically written for African-Americans about how to survive the long arm of the law, how to fight for and to save your life and the lives of the next generation.

Justice While Black
This is a guide on how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why it continues to see black men as a target and dollar signs.

Ignorance Is No Defense: A Teenager’s Guide to Georgia Laws
This is a guide to laws in Georgia impacting teenagers, their rights under the law, and insights to help avoid violating the law and avoid being victims of crime.

Inmate 1142980
In this book you learn from the author’s personal experience on how to overcome life’s most difficult barriers and achieve the impossible by understanding the hidden untapped power within you. 

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
This book reveals how federal criminal laws in the past decade have become disconnected from the English common law and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on anyone. 

The Tyranny of Good Intentions
This book looks at how the erosion of legal principles is destroying the presumption of innocence and how civil liberties are slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.

Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything 
This book examines how criminal law has been transformed by Congress continuing to add new, trivial offenses to federal criminal code.  It proposes reforms that could rein in a criminal justice apparatus at war with fairness and common sense.   

One Nation Under Arrest 
This book looks at how America is in the throes of overcriminalization.  It examines how developments in criminal law and practice over the past few decades have raised questions about the fairness of our criminal justice system as it affects the average American.

Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
In this book the author covers the trial from gavel to gavel.  It examines how racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system and how a court system and a country are conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.