Resources by Subject

Criminal justice systems

Books

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When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

by Sarah Haley

The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America

The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America

by Mark Lewis Taylor

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls

by Andrea Ritchie

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

by Rima Vesely-Flad

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Morris

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

by Amy Levad

All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence

All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence

by Fox Butterfield

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better

by Maya Schenwar

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

by Elizbeth Hinton

The End of Policing

The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

Essays and Articles

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"We Should Still Defund the Police"

by Keeanga Yamattha-Taylor

Penitence, Plantation, and the Penitentiary: A Liberation Theology for Lockdown America

by Nikia Smith Robert

The Social Covenant and Mass Incarceration

by Rima Vesely-Flad

Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment

Micah Herskind

How the School-to-Prison Pipeline Works

by Mariame Kaba, Teen Vogue

Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might

by Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

by Rachel Kushner

Race, Class, Gender, & Prisons

by Beth Riche, INCITE!

Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability

by Patrisse Cullors

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020

by Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative

Historical Resources

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From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System

by Angela Davis

Mississippi's Very Terrible, Horrible, Criminal Legal History

by Mariame Kaba

Podcasts

Video and Film

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13th

by Ava DuVernay

Presumption of Guilt

by Equal Justice Initiative

Websites

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Incite!

Incite!

Survived and Punished

Survived and Punished

Critical Resistance

Critical Resistance

The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project

The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project

Prison Policy Initiative

Prison Policy Initative

CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)

by CDC

Survived & Punished: End the Criminalization of Survival

Survived & Punished: End the Criminalization of Survival

Transform Harm

Transform Harm

Christians for the Abolition of Prisons

Christians for the Abolition of Prisons

Becoming Human: Dismantling Racism - Six Module Course

by University of St. Thomas, College of Arts and Sciences