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Mass Incarceration Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,985 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,570 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,342 ratings — published 2003
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,216 ratings — published 2007
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.17 — 793 ratings — published 2016
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,507 ratings — published 2017
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,073 ratings — published 2008
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,827 ratings — published 2019
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.05 — 857 ratings — published 2017
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 169 ratings — published 2014
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.14 — 185 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,793 ratings — published 1965
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.65 — 77,956 ratings — published 2018
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,216 ratings — published 2018
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,173 ratings — published 2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,865 ratings — published 2016
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,673 ratings — published 2005
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.13 — 398 ratings — published 1999
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 30,221 ratings — published 1987
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.46 — 317 ratings — published 2014
Live from Death Row (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,566 ratings — published 1995
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,236 ratings — published 2010
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,160 ratings — published 2023
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.12 — 86,471 ratings — published 2023
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,703 ratings — published 2015
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,325 ratings — published 2022
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,000 ratings — published
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,132 ratings — published 2020
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,199 ratings — published 2021
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,882 ratings — published 2021
Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,128 ratings — published 2011
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 824 ratings — published 2011
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,872 ratings — published 1970
States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.01 — 155 ratings — published 2001
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 269 ratings — published 2004
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 779 ratings — published 2011
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 68 ratings — published 2014
Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.08 — 40 ratings — published
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,403 ratings — published 2015
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,651 ratings — published 2016
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.46 — 209 ratings — published 2009
Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (American Crossroads) (Volume 43)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 36 ratings — published
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 81 ratings — published 2008
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 3.85 — 562 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,251 ratings — published 1975
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,000 ratings — published 1993
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 97 ratings — published 2012
Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.00 — 80 ratings — published 2007
Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mass-incarceration)
avg rating 4.16 — 56 ratings — published 2004
“For more than a half century, the Right has waged a relentless campaign against the goals and achievements of the Sixties’ movements for racial, social and economic equality. From Reagan to Trump, there has been an endless hammering away at caricatures of dopey hippies, traitorous peace protestors, bra-burning feminists, dangerous Black radicals, and commissars of political correctness.”
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“As the U.S. deindustrialized and the welfare state was gutted (a process that started in the 1970s), the solution to the problem of what to do with the unemployed people who had migrated to cities to become industrial workers—as well as the mentally ill people housed in hospitals that were shutting down en masse—was racialized mass incarceration.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
