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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,044 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,079 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,512 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,325 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,572 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,283 ratings — published 2007
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,795 ratings — published 2015
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,177 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,144 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,957 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,691 ratings — published 2020
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 488 ratings — published
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,735 ratings — published 2005
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.48 — 298 ratings — published
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 335,667 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,441 ratings — published 2018
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 230 ratings — published 2020
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 2024
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,476 ratings — published 1987
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 3,238 ratings — published 2023
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,278 ratings — published 2016
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,273 ratings — published 2020
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,753 ratings — published 1972
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,650 ratings — published 1975
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,314 ratings — published 2020
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.42 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 638 ratings — published 2017
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.38 — 151 ratings — published 2008
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.53 — 701 ratings — published
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 915 ratings — published 2022
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,074 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,073 ratings — published 2019
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 6,500 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,045 ratings — published 2014
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,955 ratings — published 1970
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.76 — 160 ratings — published
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,764 ratings — published 2017
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 162 ratings — published 2014
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 183 ratings — published 2023
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,512 ratings — published 2019
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 608 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.15 — 281 ratings — published 2016
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 833 ratings — published 2011
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,096 ratings — published 1845
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 372 ratings — published 2021
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,061 ratings — published 2016
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 76 ratings — published 2014
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,356 ratings — published 1971
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,117 ratings — published 2011
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,396 ratings — published 2006
“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist.”
― Prisons That Could Not Hold
― Prisons That Could Not Hold
“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors and friends. Every time we insist on accessible and affirming health care, safe and quality education, meaningful and secure employment, loving and healing relationships, and being our full and whole selves, we are doing abolition. Abolition is about breaking down things that oppress and building up things that nourish. Abolition is the practice of transformation in the here and now and the ever after.”
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
