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Books on Mass Incarceration and American Policing

  • Mona Verma
  • Thursday, June 20, 2019
Today, the United States makes up about 5% of the world’s population and has 21% of the world’s prisoners.In 2017, African Americans represented 12% of the U.S. adult population but 33% of the sentenced prison population. Caucasians accounted for 64% of adults but 30% of prisoners. Hispanics represented 16% of the adult population but they accounted for 23% of inmates.Mass incarceration benefits the prison industrial complex. Prisoners are also cheap sources of labor and employers who hire them gross millions in revenues while the incarcerated are only paid few cents an hour for their work. Sentencing disparities between Caucasians and persons of color are indefensible. Any person with a conscience would agree that America's prison system is in dire need of reform. Here is a reading list of books on American policing and mass incarceration.

 

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle.
Published in 2010
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Charged

Charged

The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Bazelon, Emily, author.
Published in 2019
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Chokehold

Chokehold

Policing Black Men
Butler, Paul, 1961- author.
Published in 2017
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Let's Get Free

Let's Get Free

A Hip-hop Theory of Justice
Butler, Paul, 1961- author.
Published in 2010
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Imprisoning Communities

Imprisoning Communities

How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
Clear, Todd R.
Published in 2007
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Locking Up Our Own

Locking Up Our Own

Crime and Punishment in Black America
Forman, James, 1967- author.
Published in 2017
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Golden Gulag

Golden Gulag

Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950-
Published in 2007
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No Mercy Here

No Mercy Here

Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Haley, Sarah, author.
Published in 2016
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A Colony in a Nation

A Colony in a Nation

Hayes, Christopher, 1979- author.
Published in 2017
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City of Inmates

City of Inmates

Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, author.
Published in 2017
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The Sun Does Shine

The Sun Does Shine

How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Hinton, Anthony Ray, author.
Published in 2018
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983- author.
Published in 2016
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The Black and the Blue

The Black and the Blue

A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
Horace, Matthew, author.
Published in 2018
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Pushout

Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Morris, Monique W., 1972- author.
Published in 2016
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Punishment Without Crime

Punishment Without Crime

How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Natapoff, Alexandra, author.
Published in 2018
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Locked in

Locked in

The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform
Pfaff, John F., author.
Published in 2017
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Beyond These Walls

Beyond These Walls

Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Platt, Tony, 1942- author.
Published in 2019
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To Protect and Serve

To Protect and Serve

How to Fix America's Police
Stamper, Norm, author.
Published in 2016
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Just Mercy

Just Mercy

Adapted for Young Adults
Stevenson, Bryan, author.
Published in 2018
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Mona Verma

Research and Readers Advisory Professional

Loves learning about other cultures and broadening her reading horizons through a vast selection of multicultural fiction.

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