Additional Resources
Below are some helpful tools including additional reading
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Further Reading: Mitigation
Criminal Defense-Based Forensic Social Work
Handbook of Mitigation in Criminal and Immigration Forensics: Humanizing the Client Towards a Better Legal Outcome
Criminal Mitigation Case Studies
Further Reading: Writing Skills
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Tell It Slant
Further Reading: Etc.
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Miller's Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us
Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper
Breakdown: A Clinician's Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry
Trauma and Recovery
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption
