kris's votes on the list Prison History & Theory

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1	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 4.38 avg rating — 7,106 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur 4.60 avg rating — 30,821 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti 4.14 avg rating — 398 ratings kris rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings kris rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 by Kali Nicole Gross (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings kris rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 92 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis 4.44 avg rating — 10,728 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 4.51 avg rating — 29,688 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 4.52 avg rating — 116,621 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs by Doris Marie Provine 4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge by Donna Selman 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz 4.14 avg rating — 269 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. 4.72 avg rating — 8,648 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul 4.25 avg rating — 826 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 1,128 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror by Michael F. Welch really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Prison Nation by Tara Herivel (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by Nell Bernstein 4.09 avg rating — 172 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle 3.77 avg rating — 481 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover 3.99 avg rating — 4,428 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault 4.24 avg rating — 36,610 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson 4.27 avg rating — 3,894 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate by Helen Prejean 4.14 avg rating — 9,050 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis 4.47 avg rating — 1,683 ratings kris rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison by Gresham M. Sykes 3.71 avg rating — 143 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca 4.18 avg rating — 2,520 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Reginald Dwayne Betts 3.82 avg rating — 580 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean 4.21 avg rating — 759 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 7,821 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 4.41 avg rating — 1,230 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings by Joy James (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 209 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex by Julia Sudbury (Editor) 4.37 avg rating — 83 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western 4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Prisons of Poverty by Loïc Wacquant 4.17 avg rating — 187 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Real Cost of Prisons Comix by Lois Ahrens 4.34 avg rating — 134 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 964 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality by Juliet Ash 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row by David Von Ehle 4.05 avg rating — 113 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley 4.13 avg rating — 1,974 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (Goodreads Author) 3.51 avg rating — 4,319 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Bert Useem 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom by Steven Raphael (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler 3.85 avg rating — 526 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court by Bill Ayers 3.66 avg rating — 79 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager 4.08 avg rating — 125 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Marie Gottschalk 4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex by The CR10 Publications Collective (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 150 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris 4.34 avg rating — 6,690 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie 4.43 avg rating — 308 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You by Ryan Conrad (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 103 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade 4.41 avg rating — 1,166 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang 4.60 avg rating — 1,399 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones 4.16 avg rating — 562 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment by Thalia Anthony really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Liat Ben-moshe (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 75 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Maya Schenwar (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 318 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis 4.44 avg rating — 35,163 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard 4.27 avg rating — 845 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 4,902 ratings kris added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars