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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,215 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,208 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,727 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,387 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,706 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,313 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 — 37,855 ratings — published 2015
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,204 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,154 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,794 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,717 ratings — published 2020
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.57 — 500 ratings — published
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 304 ratings — published
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,794 ratings — published 2005
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 340,133 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,464 ratings — published 2018
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 235 ratings — published 2020
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 2024
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,664 ratings — published 1987
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,478 ratings — published 2023
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,276 ratings — published 2016
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,879 ratings — published 1972
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,364 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,649 ratings — published 1975
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,676 ratings — published 2020
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 650 ratings — published 2017
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.53 — 730 ratings — published
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,133 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,430 ratings — published 2014
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.37 — 150 ratings — published 2008
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 936 ratings — published 2022
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,118 ratings — published 2019
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 195 ratings — published 2023
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 — 6,602 ratings — published 2019
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,011 ratings — published 1970
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 165 ratings — published 2014
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.76 — 164 ratings — published
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 613 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.15 — 281 ratings — published 2016
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,832 ratings — published 2017
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 839 ratings — published 2011
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,581 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,680 ratings — published 1845
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,314 ratings — published 2023
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 383 ratings — published 2021
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,244 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,376 ratings — published 1971
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,396 ratings — published 2006
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