Resources by Subject

Criminal justice systems

Books

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When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

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No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

by Sarah Haley

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The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America
The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America

by Mark Lewis Taylor

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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls

by Andrea Ritchie

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Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

by Rima Vesely-Flad

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Morris

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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

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Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration
Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

by Amy Levad

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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence

by Fox Butterfield

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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better

by Maya Schenwar

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

by Elizbeth Hinton

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The End of Policing
The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

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The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

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Essays and Articles

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"We Should Still Defund the Police"

by Keeanga Yamattha-Taylor

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Penitence, Plantation, and the Penitentiary: A Liberation Theology for Lockdown America

by Nikia Smith Robert

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The Social Covenant and Mass Incarceration

by Rima Vesely-Flad

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Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment

Micah Herskind

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How the School-to-Prison Pipeline Works

by Mariame Kaba, Teen Vogue

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Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might

by Jonathan Ben-Menachem

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Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

by Rachel Kushner

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Race, Class, Gender, & Prisons

by Beth Riche, INCITE!

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Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability

by Patrisse Cullors

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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020

by Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative

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Historical Resources

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From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System

by Angela Davis

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Mississippi's Very Terrible, Horrible, Criminal Legal History

by Mariame Kaba

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Podcasts

 

Video and Film

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13th

by Ava DuVernay

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Presumption of Guilt

by Equal Justice Initiative

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Websites

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Incite!

Incite!

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Survived and Punished

Survived and Punished

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Critical Resistance

Critical Resistance

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The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project

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The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project

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Prison Policy Initiative

Prison Policy Initative

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CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)

by CDC

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Survived & Punished: End the Criminalization of Survival

Survived & Punished: End the Criminalization of Survival

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Transform Harm

Transform Harm

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Christians for the Abolition of Prisons

Christians for the Abolition of Prisons

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Becoming Human: Dismantling Racism - Six Module Course

by University of St. Thomas, College of Arts and Sciences

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