Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.
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last updated July, 2026
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Regina G. Kunzel
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Blood in My Eye
George L. Jackson
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
Joy James
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
Tara Herivel
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
Michele Goodwin
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
Albert Woodfox
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Eric A. Stanley
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
Danielle Sered
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Angela Y. Davis
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
Premal Dharia
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action Book 5)
Joey L. Mogul
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Dan Berger
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
The CR10 Publications Collective
Walls and Bars: Prisons and Prison Life in the Land of the Free
Eugene V. Debs
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
Instead Of Prisons
Prison Research Education Action Project
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-moshe
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
The Little Book of Restorative Justice (The Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding)
Howard Zehr
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
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