Nonfiction books about prison and police abolition
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last updated July, 2025
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Joanna Schwartz
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Sarah Haley
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Dan Berger
Carceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Mariame Kaba
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie
Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide
Ardath Whynacht
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
Emily L. Thuma
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
The CR10 Publications Collective
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Are Prisons Obsolete?
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