Police Abolition
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#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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Mariame Kaba
4.64 avg rating — 5,800 ratings 3. 
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
by:
Colin Kaepernick
4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings 
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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Eric A. Stanley
4.44 avg rating — 1,119 ratings 
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
by:
Ejeris Dixon
4.52 avg rating — 1,629 ratings 9. 
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
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Jordan T. Camp
4.15 avg rating — 275 ratings 10. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 11. 
#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color 4.58 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
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Robyn Maynard
4.56 avg rating — 2,026 ratings 16. 
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence
by:
Judith Levine
3.69 avg rating — 352 ratings 17. 
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
by:
Marc Lamont Hill
4.31 avg rating — 2,059 ratings 
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
by:
Danielle Sered
4.45 avg rating — 1,017 ratings 19. 
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System 4.39 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
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Forrest Stuart
4.32 avg rating — 172 ratings 23. 
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
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Derecka Purnell
4.44 avg rating — 2,166 ratings 25. 
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police
by:
Elizabeth Comack
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings 25. 
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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Geo Maher
3.98 avg rating — 307 ratings 25. 
The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
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Aya Gruber
4.15 avg rating — 102 ratings 29. 
Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
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Jeffrey S Adler
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 29. 
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
by:
Ruha Benjamin
4.35 avg rating — 63 ratings 29. 
Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us
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Emily Horowitz
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 32. 
Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 3.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
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Maya Schenwar
4.25 avg rating — 1,274 ratings 
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice 4.29 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
by:
Walidah Imarisha
4.51 avg rating — 185 ratings 37. 
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
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Risa L. Goluboff
4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings 39. 
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings 
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Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 42. 
What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
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Various
3.87 avg rating — 184 ratings 42. 
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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Radley Balko
4.32 avg rating — 3,972 ratings 
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Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
by:
Stuart Hall
4.39 avg rating — 185 ratings 46. 
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
by:
Maya Schenwar
4.42 avg rating — 1,113 ratings 48. 
What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
by:
Vivian Nixon
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 49. 
Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings
by:
Joseph Loughlin
4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
by:
Matthew Horace
4.17 avg rating — 922 ratings 54. 
They Paid Me for This?: Stories from over Three Decades in Law Enforcement
by:
David Coppage
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 54. 
Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community
by:
Steve Herbert
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 56. 
Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
by:
Charles Campisi
3.97 avg rating — 614 ratings 56. 
Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
by:
Marisol LeBrón
4.53 avg rating — 38 ratings 58. 
The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power
by:
Mark Neocleous
4.28 avg rating — 102 ratings 58. 
The NYPD Tapes: A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage
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Graham A. Rayman
3.59 avg rating — 92 ratings 60. 
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The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
by:
Flint Taylor
4.32 avg rating — 119 ratings 62. 
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
by:
Devah Pager
4.09 avg rating — 123 ratings 63. 
Cops, Crime and Capitalism: The Law and Order Agenda in Canada
by:
Todd Gordon
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 64. 
Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 
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Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression
by:
Aziz Choudry
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings 68. 
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible 4.24 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
by:
Clarence Taylor
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
by:
Sally E. Hadden
4.12 avg rating — 76 ratings 75. 
We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities
by:
Zach Norris
4.24 avg rating — 452 ratings 76. 
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All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
by:
Emily L. Thuma
4.39 avg rating — 90 ratings 79. 
Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870
by:
Wilbur R. Miller
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 81. 
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
by:
Wesley Lowery
4.04 avg rating — 4,037 ratings 
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities 4.46 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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Ruha Benjamin
4.26 avg rating — 2,346 ratings 88. 
Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
by:
Ward Churchill
4.33 avg rating — 52 ratings 89. 
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
by:
Jeffrey Haas
4.46 avg rating — 2,714 ratings 90. 
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating — 1,301 ratings 
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
by:
Nick Estes
4.43 avg rating — 1,715 ratings 97. 
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
by:
Pierre Clastres
4.14 avg rating — 850 ratings 99. 
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
by:
Zoé Samudzi
4.46 avg rating — 601 ratings 100. 
Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party
by:
Paul Alkebulan
3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings