Abolition for the People
Your #AbolitionForThePeople Resource Guide
A toolkit for the path forward
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Here’s a non-exhaustive resource guide packed with articles, books, art, interviews, organizations, and campaigns that can provide you with further opportunities to extend your understanding of abolition and contribute to the movement for a future without policing and prisons. Abolition now. Abolition for the people.
Week 1: Police and Policing
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017) by Andrea Ritchie
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (2002) Edited by Joy James
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (2003) by Sally E. Hadden
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (2016) by Jordan T. Camp
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008) Douglas A. Blackmon
MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (2010) by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015) by Simone Browne
Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (2019) by Stuart Schrader
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces (2014) by Radley Balko
“How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power” (2020) by Steven Greenhouse
“Community Compilation on Police Abolition” (2016) by Sarah-Ji and Monica Trinidad
Hacking/Hustling Collective
Week 2: Prisons and Carcerality
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (2012) by Beth E. Ritchie
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (2011) by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings (2005) edited by Joy James
