HPB Flagship 5803 E Northwest HWY Dallas, TX 75231
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -9 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -9 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -9 PM
Thursday 10 AM -9 PM
Friday 10 AM -9 PM
Saturday 10 AM -9 PM
Sunday 10 AM -9 PM
HPB Preston Village 13388 Preston Rd Dallas, TX 75240
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Richardson Heights 100 S Central Expwy Richardson, TX 75080
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Garland 3085 N George Bush Fwy Garland, TX 75040
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Plano 2440 Preston Rd Plano, TX 75093
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Las Colinas 7631 N MacArthur Blvd Irving, TX 75063
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Lewisville 420 E FM 3040 Lewisville, TX 75067
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Frisco 3221 Preston Rd Frisco, TX 75034
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Rockwall 959 E I-30 Rockwall, TX 75087
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 11 AM -7 PM
HPB Cedar Hill 711 N Hwy 67 Cedar Hill, TX 75104
Store Hours:
Monday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Tuesday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Wednesday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Thursday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Friday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Saturday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
Sunday 10:30 AM -6:30 PM
HPB McKinney 3190 S Central Expwy McKinney, TX 75070
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Bedford 713 Harwood Rd Bedford, TX 76021
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB South Arlington 2211 S Cooper St Arlington, TX 76013
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Watauga 7620 Denton Hwy Watauga, TX 76148
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Mansfield 1551 Hwy 287 N Mansfield, TX 76063
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
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Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section.
Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender.
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Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.
Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category).
Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges' chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense.
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago-Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members.
Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.
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