Carceral FeminismBooks

No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.

Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law show how electronic monitoring, house arrest, and mandated treatment can expand punishment beyond prison walls.

Liat Ben-Moshe connects deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, challenging the claim that closing institutions caused mass incarceration.

Emily L. Thuma reconstructs the anticarceral politics developed from the 1970s into the early 1980s by criminalized women and Black, queer, prisoner, and psychiatric-survivor organizers.

Andrea Ritchie documents police violence against Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, sex workers, and trans women whose experiences are often erased from public narratives.

INCITE! centers women of color to connect interpersonal violence with policing, colonialism, militarism, and reproductive control.

Monique W. Morris examines how school discipline, policing, and neglected trauma push Black girls out of education and toward confinement.

Trans and queer accounts expose how policing and prisons enforce gender binaries, linking gender liberation with prison abolition.

Beth E. Richie examines violence against Black women and how racialized policing and punitive policy undermine their protection.

The authors trace how queer criminal stereotypes shape policing, courts, and prisons, turning sexuality and gender expression into suspicion.

Angela Y. Davis’s classic short book denaturalizes prisons as historical institutions and asks readers to imagine justice and safety beyond incarceration.