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

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

By Angela Y. Davis
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ISBN: 9781583226957
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Published: Seven Stories Press - October 4th, 2005
The End of Policing Cover Image

The End of Policing (Paperback)

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

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

By Stuart Schrader
$34.95
ISBN: 9780520295629
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Published: University of California Press - October 15th, 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

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

By Michelle Alexander
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ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Abolishing Carceral Society Cover Image

Abolishing Carceral Society (Paperback)

By Abolition Collective (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781942173083
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Published: Common Notions - December 4th, 2018
From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence Cover Image

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

By Hannah L. F. Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove
$34.95
ISBN: 9781421436449
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - January 14th, 2020
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Cover Image

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

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) 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
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition (American Crossroads) Cover Image

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition (American Crossroads) (Paperback)

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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ISBN: 9780520283138
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Published: University of California Press - December 31st, 2018
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Cover Image

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

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

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

By William Ayers
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ISBN: 9780807044032
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Published: Beacon Press - June 1st, 1998
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor Cover Image

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Robert Perkinson
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ISBN: 9780312680473
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Published: Picador - October 26th, 2010
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex Cover Image

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

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

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

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

Punishment and Inequality in America (Paperback)

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

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

By Lois Ahrens (Editor), Craig Gilmore (Preface by)
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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 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 Cover Image

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

By Piper Kerman
$16.00
ISBN: 9780385523394
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Published: Random House - March 8th, 2011
Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality Cover Image

Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality (Paperback)

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

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

By Marie Gottschalk
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ISBN: 9780521682916
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Published: Cambridge University Press - April 1st, 2006
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Cover Image

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

By Michel Foucault
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679752554
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Published: Vintage - April 25th, 1995
Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books) Cover Image

Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books) (Hardcover)

By Glenn C. Loury, Pamela S. Karlan (Contribution by), Loic Wacquant (Contribution by)
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ISBN: 9780262123112
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Published: Mit Press - September 1st, 2008
American Prisons: A Study in American Social History Prior to 1915 Cover Image

American Prisons: A Study in American Social History Prior to 1915 (Paperback)

By Blake McKelvey
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ISBN: 9781258240011
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Published: Literary Licensing, LLC - March 17th, 2012
Crime And Punishment In American History Cover Image

Crime And Punishment In American History (Paperback)

By Lawrence Friedman
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ISBN: 9780465014873
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Published: Basic Books - September 9th, 1994
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society Cover Image

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

By Norval Morris (Editor), David J. Rothman (Editor)
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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 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
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Published: Verso - May 24th, 2016
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Cover Image

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

By Regina Kunzel
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ISBN: 9780226462271
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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) 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
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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) 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
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ISBN: 9780807856314
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Published: Omohundro Institute and University of North C - April 29th, 1996
Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America Cover Image

Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (Paperback)

By Michele Lise Tarter (Editor), Richard Bell (Editor), Jacqueline Cahif (Contribution by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9780820341200
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Published: University of Georgia Press - March 1st, 2012
Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Women And Culture Series) 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
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Published: University of Michigan Press - April 4th, 1984
Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement 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