Recs if you like Chokehold: Policing Black Men...

All of the books listed here are introductory texts for Prison Abolition. The books on this list need no prior knowledge and are all great starting points for understanding prison abolition. You will find personal accounts, journalistic and essay books, as well as accessible analyses and histories of policing/incarceration

This list is the why of abolition

Not an expert here at all, but these are some of the books we have been reading in my anti-racism book club or shared by other anti-racism book clubs! Please feel free to share more!

Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon?

Created by a surviving family member of a police-sanctioned lynching.

Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.

Books making the case for police abolition, focused on the nature of policing, its massive contribution to structural racism, the ineffectiveness of private prisons, and the impact the system has on our communities.

Books covering Black history, Blackness, and systemic racism without the whitewashing and sanitization.