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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,364 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 — 6,114 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,595 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,341 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,618 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,293 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 — 37,088 ratings — published 2015
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,184 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,153 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 — 119,513 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,699 ratings — published 2020
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 490 ratings — published
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,747 ratings — published 2005
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 303 ratings — published
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 336,905 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.46 — 233 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 — 32,814 ratings — published 1987
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,316 ratings — published 2023
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,277 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 — 3,296 ratings — published 2020
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,786 ratings — published 1972
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,905 ratings — published 1975
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,448 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 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 642 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 4.37 — 150 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 — 709 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 — 923 ratings — published 2022
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,091 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,957 ratings — published 2014
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,085 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 — 6,525 ratings — published 2019
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,968 ratings — published 1970
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.76 — 162 ratings — published
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,780 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 — 184 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 — 2,534 ratings — published 2019
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 607 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 — 282 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 — 834 ratings — published 2011
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,725 ratings — published 1845
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 77 ratings — published 2014
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,362 ratings — published 1971
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 377 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 — 5,107 ratings — published 2016
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,117 ratings — published 2011
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,395 ratings — published 2006
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests
in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.
At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.”
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in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.
At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.”
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“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.”
― Prisons That Could Not Hold
― Prisons That Could Not Hold
