Prisons and policing

with many suggestions taken from the excellent Prison Culture blog! 

The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)

Joy James

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

Michelle Alexander

Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel

Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver

The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State

Naomi Murakawa

Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Yvonne Davis

Abolition Democracy : Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire Interviews with Angela Y. Davis (Open Media)

Angela Yvonne Davis

Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality

Juliet Ash

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor

Tara Herivel and Paul Wright

Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Victoria Law and Laura Whitehorn

The Real Cost Of Prisons Comix

Craig Gilmore, Lois Ahrens, Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones, Susan Willmarth, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (New edition 2008)

Christian Parenti

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

Devah Pager

The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Marie Gottschalk

Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Andrea James

Prisons of Poverty

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-industrial Complex

Julia Sudbury

Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire

Robert Perkinson

Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Alternative Criminology)

K.C. Carceral and Thomas Bernard

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison

Paula C. Johnson

Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Tina Reynolds, and Ruby Tapia

Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America

Anne-Marie Cusac

Why are So Many Black Men in Prison?

Demico Boothe

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

Victor M. Rios

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

Radley Balko (Author)

Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Loïc Wacquant

Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)

Sally E. Hadden

Punishment and Inequality in America

Bruce Western

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)

Kristian Williams (Author) and Andrea Ritchie (Introduction)

Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison

Nell Bernstein

Beat the Heat : How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement

Katya Komisaruk

Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City

Marilynn S. Johnson

Locked Up, But Not Locked Down: A Guide to Surviving the American Prison System

Ahmariah Jackson and I. Atomic

Inside this Place, Not of it: Narratives from Women's Prisons

Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

Maya Schenwar (Author)

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari (Author)

The Eternal Criminal Record

James B. Jacobs

The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Bernard E. Harcourt

A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Ernest Drucker

Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

John Hagan

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

Glenn C. Loury

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Tara Herival and Paul Wright

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

Hadar Aviram

Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic

Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness

Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism

Andrew Dilts

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Alice Goffman

Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering

Joanne Minaker

Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment

Michael Welch

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

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

Annette Fuentes

Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail

Mary E. Buser

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, and Barbara Becnel

Ferguson Is America: Roots of Rebellion

Jamala Rogers

Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side

Mark Dostert

Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers

Joyce A. Arditti

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown

Lezley McSpadden

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-Lan Price

Incarceration Nations: In Search of Justice in Prisons Around the World

Baz Dreisinger

Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future

Andrew Coyle, Helen Fair, Jessica Jacobson, and Roy Walmsley

Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

Michael Lynch

Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State

Stephen Dillon

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

Andrea Ritchie and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)

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