RESOURCES

Here are our recommended resources:

• Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Davis)

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

• Mapping Police Violence (Samuel Sinyangwe et al.)

• TransformHarm.org (Mariame Kaba)

• Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ (Rachel Kincaid)

• If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide (Abolition Journal)

• Reckoning with Violence (Michelle Alexander)

• The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

• Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police (Mariame Kaba)

• Police ‘Reforms’ You Should Always Oppose (Mariame Kaba)

• Towards the Horizon of Abolition: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba (The Next System)

• Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Rachel Herzing (The Black Scholar)

• Policing Has Failed: For Real Public Safety, We Need A Million Community-Driven Experiments (Mary Hooks, Movement for Black Lives)

• What About the Rapists and Murderers? (Angel Parker)

• How Would Prison Abolition Actually Work? (An Interview with Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance)

• Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps in Policing (Critical Resistance)

• Interrupting Criminalization (Movement for Black Lives and BCRW Social Justice Institute)

• How I Became an Abolitionist (Derecka Purnell)

• Behind the Police: Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing (Behind The Bastards)

• Freedom to Thrive (Popular Democracy)

• Stop Law Enforcement Violence Toolkit (INCITE!)

• Agenda to Build Black Futures (Black Youth Project 100)

• We Came to Learn: A Call for Police-Free Schools (Advancement Project)

• Building Accountable Communities (BCRW Social Justice Institute)

• Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (INCITE!)

• Broken Windows Policing (Washington Post)

• Ban the Box (Ban the Box Campaign)