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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,733 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,156 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 122 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,671 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,366 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,647 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,300 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 — 37,424 ratings — published 2015
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,193 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 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 73 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,092 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,709 ratings — published 2020
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 494 ratings — published
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,766 ratings — published 2005
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 304 ratings — published
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,069 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,450 ratings — published 2018
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 237 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 43 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,198 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 — 3,411 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 — 1,278 ratings — published 2016
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,827 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 — 3,327 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,173 ratings — published 1975
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.42 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 26 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,566 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 — 646 ratings — published 2017
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
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.53 — 720 ratings — published
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 928 ratings — published 2022
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,105 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,095 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,839 ratings — published 2014
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 — 6,572 ratings — published 2019
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 191 ratings — published 2023
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.29 — 163 ratings — published 2014
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,991 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
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 611 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 4.16 — 282 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 — 4,805 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 — 836 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 — 2,550 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,283 ratings — published 1845
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 381 ratings — published 2021
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 — 1,365 ratings — published 1971
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,397 ratings — published 2006
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.10 — 104,084 ratings — published 2023
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,166 ratings — published 2016
“When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassionate" or "certified humane" or whatever, which *may* be *slightly* less hideous. But it's all torture. It's all wrong. These "happy" gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of "happy" exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.”
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