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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)

By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence By Hannah L. F. Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove Cover Image

From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence (Hardcover)

By Hannah L. F. Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove
$37.00
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ISBN: 9781421436449
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - January 14th, 2020
Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Women And Culture Series) By Estelle B. Freedman Cover Image

Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Women And Culture Series) (Paperback)

By Estelle B. Freedman
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ISBN: 9780472080526
Published: University of Michigan Press - April 4th, 1984
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
The End of Policing By Alex S. Vitale Cover Image

The End of Policing (Paperback)

By Alex S. Vitale
$17.95
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ISBN: 9781784782924
Published: Verso - August 28th, 2018
Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads #56) By Stuart Schrader Cover Image

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads #56) (Paperback)

By Stuart Schrader
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ISBN: 9780520295629
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Published: University of California Press - October 15th, 2019
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series) By Angela Y. Davis Cover Image

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series) (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis
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ISBN: 9781583226957
Published: Seven Stories Press - October 4th, 2005
Abolishing Carceral Society By Abolition Collective (Editor) Cover Image

Abolishing Carceral Society (Paperback)

By Abolition Collective (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781942173083
Published: Common Notions - December 4th, 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) By Angela Y. Davis Cover Image

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis
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ISBN: 9781583225813
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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 5th, 2003
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color By Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)

By Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
$21.00
ISBN: 9780807088982
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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 2017
A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court By William Ayers Cover Image

A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Paperback)

By William Ayers
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ISBN: 9780807044032
Published: Beacon Press - June 1st, 1998
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor By Paul Wright (Editor), Tara Herivel (Editor) Cover Image

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor (Paperback)

By Paul Wright (Editor), Tara Herivel (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780415935388
Published: Routledge - December 30th, 2002
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series) By Joy James (Editor), Joy James (Introduction by) Cover Image

The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series) (Paperback)

By Joy James (Editor), Joy James (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780791464861
Published: State University of New York Press - July 14th, 2005
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Victoria Law, Laura Whitehorn (Introduction by) Cover Image

Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)

By Victoria Law, Laura Whitehorn (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781604865837
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Published: PM Press - October 5th, 2012
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration By Devah Pager Cover Image

Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)

By Devah Pager
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ISBN: 9780226644844
Published: University of Chicago Press - April 15th, 2009
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire By Robert Perkinson Cover Image

Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Paperback)

By Robert Perkinson
$24.00
ISBN: 9780312680473
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Published: Picador - October 26th, 2010
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex By Julia Sudbury (Editor) Cover Image

Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Paperback)

By Julia Sudbury (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780415950572
Published: Routledge - January 1st, 2005
Prisons of Poverty (Contradictions of Modernity #23) By Loïc Wacquant Cover Image

Prisons of Poverty (Contradictions of Modernity #23) (Paperback)

By Loïc Wacquant
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ISBN: 9780816639014
Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - December 31st, 2009
Punishment and Inequality in America By Bruce Western Cover Image

Punishment and Inequality in America (Paperback)

By Bruce Western
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ISBN: 9780871548955
Published: Russell Sage Foundation - December 13th, 2007
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (PM Press) By Lois Ahrens (Editor), Craig Gilmore (Preface by) Cover Image

The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (PM Press) (Paperback)

By Lois Ahrens (Editor), Craig Gilmore (Preface by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781604860344
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Published: PM Press - September 1st, 2008
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court By Edward Humes Cover Image

No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (Paperback)

By Edward Humes
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ISBN: 9781501102936
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 17th, 2015
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison By Piper Kerman Cover Image

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Paperback)

By Piper Kerman
$18.00
ISBN: 9780385523394
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Published: Random House - March 8th, 2011
Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality By Juliet Ash Cover Image

Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality (Paperback)

By Juliet Ash
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ISBN: 9781850438946
Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - December 1st, 2009
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) By Marie Gottschalk Cover Image

The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) (Paperback)

By Marie Gottschalk
$34.99
ISBN: 9780521682916
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Published: Cambridge University Press - June 19th, 2006
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison By Michel Foucault Cover Image

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)

By Michel Foucault
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679752554
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Published: Vintage - April 25th, 1995
Crime And Punishment In American History By Lawrence M. Friedman Cover Image

Crime And Punishment In American History (Paperback)

By Lawrence M. Friedman
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ISBN: 9780465014873
Published: Basic Books - September 9th, 1994
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society By Norval Morris (Editor), David J. Rothman (Editor) Cover Image

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society (Paperback)

By Norval Morris (Editor), David J. Rothman (Editor)
$24.99
ISBN: 9780195118148
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - December 18th, 1997
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter By Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor) Cover Image

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Paperback)

By Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781784783167
Published: Verso - May 24th, 2016
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality By Regina Kunzel Cover Image

Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Paperback)

By Regina Kunzel
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ISBN: 9780226462271
Published: University of Chicago Press - May 30th, 2010
The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (New Lines in Criminology) By David J. Rothman Cover Image

The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (New Lines in Criminology) (Paperback)

By David J. Rothman
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ISBN: 9780202307152
Published: Routledge - October 31st, 2002
Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) By Michael Meranze Cover Image

Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) (Paperback)

By Michael Meranze
$47.50
ISBN: 9780807856314
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Published: Omohundro Institute and University of North C - April 29th, 1996
Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America By Michele Lise Tarter (Editor), Richard Bell (Editor), Jacqueline Cahif (Contribution by) Cover Image

Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (Paperback)

By Michele Lise Tarter (Editor), Richard Bell (Editor), Jacqueline Cahif (Contribution by)
$34.95
ISBN: 9780820341200
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Published: University of Georgia Press - March 1st, 2012
Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement By Alexander W. Pisciotta Cover Image

Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement (Paperback)

By Alexander W. Pisciotta
$28.00
ISBN: 9780814766385
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Published: New York University Press - July 1st, 1996