The books listed below provide focused attention on a myriad of topic areas related to the contemporary crises of punishment. Such topic areas include the impact of incarceration of individuals, families, and communities, private prisons, prison culture, prison management, coping, wrongful conviction, abolition, redemption, restorative justice, and selected works examine the historical context of imprisonment in the U.S. and internationally.
Title |
Author(s)/Editor(s) |
|
1. |
All Alone in the World |
Nell Bernstein |
2. |
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment |
Shane Bauer |
3. |
Are Prisons Obsolete |
Angela Davis |
4. |
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation |
Beth E. Richie |
5. |
Asylums |
Erving Goffman |
6. |
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy |
Heather Ann Thompson |
7. |
But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry |
Jeremy Travis |
8. |
Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants Paperback |
Martha D. Escobar |
9. |
Children of the Prison Boom |
Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman |
10. |
Corrections: A Humanistic Approach |
Hans Toch |
11. |
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court |
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve |
12. |
Doing Time on the Outside |
Donald Braman |
13. |
Doing Time Together |
Megan Comfort |
14. |
Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement |
Robert J. Norris |
15. |
Fatherhood Arrested |
Ann Nurse |
16. |
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime |
Elizabeth Hinton |
17. |
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration |
Mary Patillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western |
18. |
Imprisoning Communities |
Todd Clear |
19. |
Incarceration Nations |
Baz Dreisinger |
20. |
Inside this Place, Not of it |
Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman |
21. |
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color |
Andrea Ritchie |
22. |
Just Mercy |
Bryan Stevenson |
23. |
Living in prison: The ecology of survival. |
Hans Toch |
24. |
Lockdown America |
Christian Parenti |
25. |
Locking up Our Own |
James Forman, Jr. |
26. |
Pains of Imprisonment |
Hans Toch and Robert Johnson |
27. |
Parental Incarceration and the Family |
Joyce A. Arditti |
28. |
Plague of Prisons |
Ernest Drucker |
29. |
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York |
Carl Suddler |
30. |
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor |
Tara Herivel and Paul Wright |
31. |
Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration on Children, Families, and Communities |
Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul |
32. |
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools |
Monique Morris |
33. |
Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation |
Eric Deggans |
34. |
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition |
Katherine Franke |
35. |
Slavery by Another Name |
Douglas A. Blackmon |
36. |
Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum-Security Prison |
Gresham Sykes |
37. |
The New Jim Crow |
Michelle Alexander |
38. |
When Prisoners Come Home |
Joan Petersilia |
39. |
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison |
Shaka Senghor |
