Sered, Danielle. (2019). Until We Reckon. New York and London: The New Press. Chs 4–7. PDF: Sered, Until We Reckon Alternative source (PDF or EPUB): https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/search/titles/until%20we%20reckon:%20violence,%20mass%20incarceration,%20and%20a%20road%20to%20repair
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Abolition Readings
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. (2007). “Mothers Reclaiming Our Children,” and “What is to Be Done.” Chs. 5 and 6 in Golden Gulag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 181–248.
PDF: Gilmore, Golden Gulag
Alternative source (requires free registration): https://archive.org/details/GoldenGulag/mode/2up
Rojas, Paula X. (2016) “Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts?” The Scholar and Feminist Online 13.2.
https://sfonline.barnard.edu/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/ Originally published in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. (2007). The Revolution Will Not Be Funded : Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Boston: South End Press, 197–214. Requires free registration: https://archive.org/details/revolutionwillno00inci
Lamble, Sarah. (2020) “Practising Everyday Abolition.” Abolitionist Futures, 19 August.
Videos
Trump's Anti-Trans Campaign Promises
Ruth Wilson Gilmore. (2022). "Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition."
Re-Visions of Abolition. (2021) Dir. Setsu Shigematsu.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore. (2012). “Don’t Reform Prisons, Abolish Them”
Policing in Finland (2011) Dir. Tuomas Vauhkonen and Jeremias Nieminen
Readings
Beckett, Lois. (2023). "One in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling." The Guardian 15 February.
Slides from presentation on 7 February 2023:
Anti-Trans Bills Across the U. S.
Cunningham-Cook, Matthew. (2023). "A Gruesome Bill Asks Prisoners to Give Up Organs to Get Out a Few Months Early." Jacobin 1 Feburary. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/massachusetts-democrats-prisoner-organ-bone-marrow-donation
Skiba, Russ. (2023). "Disarming School Police: An Interview with Dr. Jacinda Townsend Gides." The Ryder January, 19–21. https://online.flippingbook.com/view/353938979/18/
Vargas, Ramon Antonio. (2023). "Yale honors Black girl, nine, wrongly reported to police over insect project." The Guardian 31 January.
Bracken, Kassie; Morgan, Nailah; Boyer, Mark; deBruyn, Elliot. "‘Get Your Hands Off Me’: Student Arrest Puts Role of School Police Under Scrutiny." New York Times 24 January 2023.
Levin, Sam. (2023). "Survivors recount rampant abuse at Los Angeles’ juvenile jails: ‘Helpless, hopeless, lost and lonely’." The Guardian 23 January.
Oladipo, Gloria. (2023). "Alarm as US states pass ‘very concerning’ anti-homeless laws," The Guardian 5 January. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/us-states-homelessness-laws-alarm
Ross, Andrew; Livingston, Julie. (2022). "Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It." New York Times 15 December.
Berger, Eric. (2022). "Shocking claims against former top officer lift lid on US sexual abuse scandal." The Guardian, 9 December.
Balto, Simon, and Max Felker-Kantor. (2022) "Police and Crime in the American City, 1800–2020." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. 18 May. https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-56.
Chan, Amanda; Nathanson, Anna. (2021). "'Not Fit for Human Consumption': Prison Food's Absent Regulatory Regime." William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 29:4.
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