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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,851 ratings
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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4.44 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,754 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,859 ratings
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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4.23 avg rating — 12,754 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Abolition For The People
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4.07 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
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4.07 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
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4.47 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Instead Of Prisons
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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4.42 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
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4.41 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,913 ratings
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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4.45 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
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4.47 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
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4.39 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
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4.45 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
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4.43 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
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4.42 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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4.41 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
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3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr
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4.07 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
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4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
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4.14 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Other: An Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology
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4.52 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Zek: An American Prison Story
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4.23 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Carceral Capitalism
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4.60 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
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4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
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4.27 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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4.41 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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4.52 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
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4.15 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 31,011 ratings
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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4.39 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Penal Abolition the Practical Choice
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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4.21 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Case for Penal Abolition
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Problem of Punishment
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3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Prison-Industrial Complex & the Global Economy
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4.09 avg rating — 46 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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4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists (Women Crime Criminology)
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Readings on the Prison Movement
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Incarceration of Women: Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rethinking the American Prison Movement
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security (Critical Criminological Perspectives)
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941
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4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
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4.31 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
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4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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4.17 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
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3.97 avg rating — 64 ratings
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In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
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3.99 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir
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3.14 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
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3.82 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Detained: Immigration Laws & Expanding Ins Jail Complex
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prison
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4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
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4.15 avg rating — 74 ratings
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A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo
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4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
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4.31 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You
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4.21 avg rating — 103 ratings
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
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4.49 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
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4.02 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
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4.34 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Hard Time: Banged Up Abroad Raving Arizona
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4.11 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
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3.97 avg rating — 15,421 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Exile
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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In Russian and French Prisons
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3.87 avg rating — 77 ratings
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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4.64 avg rating — 5,953 ratings
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
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4.37 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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4.49 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
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4.14 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
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4.10 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The End of Policing
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4.18 avg rating — 12,261 ratings
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What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
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3.85 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory
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4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
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4.27 avg rating — 3,894 ratings
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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
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4.25 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
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4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Handbook of Restorative Justice
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style
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4.34 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
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4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices From El Barrio
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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We Are Our Own Liberators: [Selected Prison Writings]
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4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
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World Behind Bars: The Expansion of the American Prison Sell
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Abolition Democracy (Open Media Series)
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4.47 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Abolishing Carceral Society
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4.30 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
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4.34 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition
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4.21 avg rating — 61 ratings
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We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities
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4.25 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
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4.41 avg rating — 81 ratings
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