Longer Recommended Readings
- The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, Louis Ahrens
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, Robyn Maynard
- High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society, Carl Hart
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison-Industrial Complex, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
- Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Andrea Ritchie
- The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
- Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, Juno Mac and Molly Smith
- Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
- Assata: An Autobiography, Assata Shakur
- Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon
- Decriminalizing Domestic Violence, Leigh Goodmark
- Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains, Alix Lutnick
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Mariame Kaba
- Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair, Danielle Sered
- Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness, Will Hall
- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Abolition Geography: Essays on Liberation, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/Abled Girls of Color in the School-Prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annama
- Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners
- Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And how Abolition Can Build a Safer World, Dorothy Roberts
Queer (In)Justice: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF LGBT PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
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