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#BroaderBookshelf 2021: Read A Social Science Book (American Policing and Mass Incarceration)

  • Mona Verma
  • Wednesday, January 06

Fulfill the "Read A Social Science Book" prompt with these titles.

This list is part of the #BroaderBookshelf 2021 reading challenge. Find more lists here.

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

Police Violence and Resistance in the United States.
Published in 2016
1 online resource
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The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle.
Published in 2010
xi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
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Rise of the Warrior Cop

Rise of the Warrior Cop

The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Balko, Radley.
Published in 2013
xvi, 382 pages ; 25 cm
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Charged

Charged

The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Bazelon, Emily, author.
Published in 2019
409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Chokehold

Chokehold

Policing Black Men
Butler, Paul, 1961- author.
Published in 2017
304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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
1 online resource
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Blue on Blue

Blue on Blue

An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Campisi, Charles, author.
Published in 2017
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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With Liberty for Some

With Liberty for Some

500 Years of Imprisonment in America
Christianson, Scott.
Published in 1998
xix, 394 pages ; 24 cm
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The Punishment Imperative

The Punishment Imperative

The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
Clear, Todd R., author.
Published in 2014
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Blue

Blue

The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Domanick, Joe.
Published in 2015
xix, 437 pages ; 24 cm
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Kids for Cash

Kids for Cash

Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme
Ecenbarger, William.
Published in 2012
xiv, 272 pages ; 22 cm
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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
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Golden Gulag

Golden Gulag

Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950-
Published in 2007
xxii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
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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
1 online resource.
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A Colony in a Nation

A Colony in a Nation

Hayes, Christopher, 1979- author.
Published in 2017
256 pages ; 25 cm
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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
1 online resource.
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Behind the Razor Wire

Behind the Razor Wire

Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System
Jacobson-Hardy, Michael, 1951-
Published in 1999
xviii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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Prisons and the American Conscience

Prisons and the American Conscience

A History of U.S. Federal Corrections
Keve, Paul W.
Published in 1991
xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Chained in Silence

Chained in Silence

Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
LeFlouria, Talitha L., author.
Published in 2015
1 online resource.
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A Country Called Prison

A Country Called Prison

Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
Looman, Mary D., author.
Published in 2015
xxiii, 232 pages ; 25 cm
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The War on Cops

The War on Cops

How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Mac Donald, Heather.
Published in 2016
iv, 242 pages ; 24 cm
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Queer (in)justice

Queer (in)justice

The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Mogul, Joey L., 1969-
Published in 2011
xx, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
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Pushout

Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Morris, Monique W., 1972- author.
Published in 2016
277 pages ; 22 cm
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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
334 pages ; 25 cm
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Exonerated

Exonerated

A History of the Innocence Movement
Norris, Robert J., author.
Published in 2017
x, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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Texas Tough

Texas Tough

The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Perkinson, Robert.
Published in 2010
484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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
372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Invisible No More

Invisible No More

Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Ritchie, Andrea J., author.
Published in 2017
xv, 324 pages ; 23 cm
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The Color of Law

The Color of Law

A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, Richard, author.
Published in 2017
xvii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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To Protect and Serve

To Protect and Serve

How to Fix America's Police
Stamper, Norm, author.
Published in 2016
xx, 309 pages ; 25 cm
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Blood in the Water

Blood in the Water

The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- author.
Published in 2016
xvii, 724 pages ; 24 cm
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Author

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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