Abolition

  • Abolition Collective. (2020). Making abolitionist worlds: Proposals for a world on fire. Common Notions.
  • Abolitionist Futures – https://abolitionistfutures.com/ and their full reading list for 2022
  • African American Intellectual History Society. (2016). Prison abolition syllabus. Black Perspectives. Retrieved from https://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-syllabus/
  • Alexander, M. (2020). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New ed. The New Press.
  • David, A.Y. (2005). Abolition democracy: Beyond empire, prisons, and torture. Seven Stories Press.
  • Davis, A.Y. (2011). Are prisons obsolete? Seven Stories Press.
  • Davis, A.Y., Dent, G., Meiners, E.R., & Richie, B.E. (2022). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books.
  • Dixon, E. & Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (2020). Beyond survival: Strategies and stories from the transformative justice movement. AK Press.
  • Gilmore, R.W. (2022). Abolition geography: Essays towards liberation. Verso.
  • Gilmore, R.W. (2022). Change everything: Racial capitalism and the case for abolition. Haymarket Books.
  • Kaba, M. (2021). We do this ’til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.
  • Law, V. (2021). “Prisons make us safer”: And 20 other myths about mass incarceration. Beacon Press.
  • Pendergrass, T. & Hoke, M. (Eds.). (2018). Six by ten: Stories from solitary. Haymarket Books.
  • Purnell, D. (2021). Becoming abolitionists: Police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom. Astra House.
  • Schenwar, M. & Law, V. (2020). Prison by any other name. The New Press.
  • Sered, D. (2019). Until we reckon: Violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair. The New Press.
  • The Marshall Project – https://www.themarshallproject.org/
  • Vollen, L. & Eggers, D. (Eds.). (2016). Surviving justice: America’s wrongfully convicted and exonerated. Haymarket Books.
  • Waldman, A. & Levi, R. (Eds.). (2017). Inside this place, not of it: Narratives from women’s prisons. Haymarket Books.