Prison Abolition
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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 3. 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,053 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
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Colin Kaepernick
4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings 
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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Shane Bauer
4.23 avg rating — 12,499 ratings 10. 
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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Robin Bernstein
4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings 11. 
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
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Dean Spade
4.42 avg rating — 1,153 ratings 12. 
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
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Maya Schenwar
4.47 avg rating — 316 ratings 13. 
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
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Danielle Sered
4.44 avg rating — 1,018 ratings 15. 
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
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Liat Ben-moshe
4.44 avg rating — 73 ratings 16. 
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California 4.40 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
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Deepa Fernandes
3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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Victoria Law
4.45 avg rating — 207 ratings 23. 
Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
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Dylan Rodríguez
4.39 avg rating — 54 ratings 24. 
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
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Angela Y. Davis
4.47 avg rating — 1,649 ratings 25. 
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex 4.38 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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Ejeris Dixon
4.52 avg rating — 1,629 ratings 
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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Ching-In Chen
4.39 avg rating — 1,110 ratings 29. 
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
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Beth E. Richie
4.43 avg rating — 309 ratings 30. 
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
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Kristin Bumiller
3.99 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
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Joshua Dubler
3.81 avg rating — 58 ratings 35. 
Detained: Immigration Laws & Expanding Ins Jail Complex
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Michael F. Welch
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 35. 
The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prison 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
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Jean Casella
4.28 avg rating — 438 ratings 
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
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Francisco Cantú
3.97 avg rating — 15,191 ratings 44. 
Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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Maya Schenwar
4.42 avg rating — 1,112 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 — 5,802 ratings 
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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 54. 
Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
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Karlene Faith
3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings 54. 
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
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Victoria Law
4.17 avg rating — 836 ratings 54. 
Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us
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Emily Horowitz
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
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Various
3.87 avg rating — 184 ratings 
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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
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Joey L. Mogul
4.24 avg rating — 824 ratings 63. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 
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Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror
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Jeanne Flavin
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 67. 
Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style
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Nils Christie
4.36 avg rating — 103 ratings 69. 
Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
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Luana Ross
4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices From El Barrio really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
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Zoe A. Colley
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 74. ![We Are Our Own Liberators: [Selected Prison Writings]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1171055099i/84496._SX100_.jpg)
We Are Our Own Liberators: [Selected Prison Writings]
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Jalil Muntaqim
4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities
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Zach Norris
4.24 avg rating — 452 ratings 80. 
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
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Jenna M. Loyd
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 80. 
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
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Garrett Felber
4.37 avg rating — 75 ratings 82. 
Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination 4.33 avg rating — 12 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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Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
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Walidah Imarisha
4.51 avg rating — 185 ratings 86. 
Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health
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Ernest Drucker
4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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Marie Gottschalk
4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings 88. 
Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists (Women Crime Criminology) 4.58 avg rating — 12 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 
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The Incarceration of Women: Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)
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Linda Moore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System
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Dario Melossi
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 98. 
Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security (Critical Criminological Perspectives)
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Deborah H. Drake
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 99. 
The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941
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Rebecca McLennan
4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings 100. 
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
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Jill A McCorkel
4.31 avg rating — 68 ratings