Prison AbolitionBooks

Thenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.

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

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.

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 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.

Susan Burton’s lived account connects trauma, the drug war, repeated incarceration, and reentry, then turns recovery into care and political work led by formerly incarcerated women.

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.