Recs if you like No More Police: A Case for Abolition...

These texts all require some level of prior knowledge and understanding of abolition, how the carceral system functions, organizing, & more.

I also have a list for intro/beginner texts

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

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.

books about sex work and what it entails

This is a collection of books from @bisexualbookshelf that examine power, history, and liberation across interconnected struggles.

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

trying to ensure i know what i own and what i need to read stilll