Prison Abolition - Books

Thenmozhi Soundararajan analyzes caste as a transnational structure of trauma and links Dalit feminism, healing justice, and abolition.

Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.

No More Police: A Case for Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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

We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Emily Thuma traces organizing by criminalized and marginalized women in anti-violence movements, challenging mainstream feminist reliance on the criminal legal system.

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.

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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