29 must-read nonfiction books like Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi

Cover of Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi

Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

By: Vincent Schiraldi

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Bruce Western The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole—and a pro…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi , here is a list of 29 books like this:

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

1. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

Cover of How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter

2. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

Similar categories in Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

3. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Cover of A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

6. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Weinersmith's A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman

8. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

By: Noah Whiteman

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more

Similar categories in Noah Whiteman's Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

9. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy

10. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

11. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

By: Robert A. Caro

4.44

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Caro's Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"

-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Cover of Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes

12. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

13. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
Cover of Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley

14. Witness: Stories

By: Jamel Brinkley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more

Similar categories in Jamel Brinkley's Witness: Stories book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."

-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories

Cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

15. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

Similar categories in Laurence Leamer's Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

16. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

17. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Pahlka's Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

18. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

19. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

Cover of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover

20. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

By: Ted Conover

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more

Similar categories in Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

21. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland

22. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Cover of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

23. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

By: Steven Johnson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more

Similar categories in Steven Johnson's The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah  Carlson

24. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo

25. Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

By: Bo Seo

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam G… read more

Similar categories in Bo Seo's Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

26. The Black Box: Writing the Race

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more

Similar categories in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Box: Writing the Race book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice  Wong

27. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
Cover of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow

28. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

Similar categories in Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

29. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi

30. Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

By: Vincent Schiraldi

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Bruce Western The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole—and a pro… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • social issues
Cover of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

31. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Nagle's By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land book and Vincent Schiraldi's Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

22 best-selling history books like Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi

Transform Your Habits

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

View all the books

27 Best audiobook books like Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Stay True

Hua Hsu

4.03

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.