Booklist
#BroaderBookshelf 2021: Read A Social Science Book (American Policing and Mass Incarceration)
- Mona Verma
- Wednesday, January 06

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
Police Violence and Resistance in the United States.
Published in 2016
1 online resource

The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Published in 2010
xi, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Rise of the Warrior Cop
The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Published in 2013
xvi, 382 pages ; 25 cm

Charged
The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Published in 2019
409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm



Blue on Blue
An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Published in 2017
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


The Punishment Imperative
The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
Published in 2014
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


Kids for Cash
Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme
Published in 2012
xiv, 272 pages ; 22 cm

Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Published in 2017
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Published in 2007
xxii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

No Mercy Here
Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Published in 2016
1 online resource.


City of Inmates
Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965.
Published in 2017
1 online resource.

Behind the Razor Wire
Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System
Published in 1999
xviii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Prisons and the American Conscience
A History of U.S. Federal Corrections
Published in 1991
xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Published in 2015
1 online resource.

A Country Called Prison
Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
Published in 2015
xxiii, 232 pages ; 25 cm

The War on Cops
How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Published in 2016
iv, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Queer (in)justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Published in 2011
xx, 216 pages ; 24 cm.


Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Published in 2018
334 pages ; 25 cm


Texas Tough
The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Published in 2010
484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Locked in
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform
Published in 2017
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Beyond These Walls
Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Published in 2019
372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Invisible No More
Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Published in 2017
xv, 324 pages ; 23 cm

The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Published in 2017
xvii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm


Blood in the Water
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Published in 2016
xvii, 724 pages ; 24 cm