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Organizing

• Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
  David Cole (Author)
• Occupation: Organizer: A Critical History of Community Organizing in America
  by Clément Petitjean (Author)
• Let this Radicalize You
  By Miriam Kaba (Author) & Kelly Hayes (Author) 
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
  Maya Schenwar (Editor) (Author)  Joe Macaré (Editor) (Author)  Alana Yu-Lan Price (Editor)
• The Anti-Registry Activist Manual: A Guide to Effective Advocacy 
  by Jonathan Grund (Editor - Multiple Authors)

Survivorship - Trauma - Prevention

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health
  By Robie H. Harris (Author)  Michael Emberley (Illustrator)
• The Body Keeps the Score
  by Bessel van der Kolk MD (Author)
• Article: The case for abolitionist sex education
  By Emma Schwartz (Author)
• Queering Sexual Violence - Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
  By Jennifer Patterson (Author)
• The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
  By Sarah Deer (Author)
  
• Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Herman (Author)

Criminal Legal System & Reentry

• Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Disabilities, and the Criminal Justice System: Breaking the Cycle
  By Nick Dubin (Author)
• A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K.
  By Barnett (Author)
• A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice
  By David Alan Sklansky (Author)
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
  By Heather Ann Thompson (Author)
• Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses
  Lawrence A. Dubin, J.D. (Editor) Emily Horowitz Ph.D. (Editor) 
• Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Revised)
  By Marie Gottschalk (Author)  Marie Gottschalk (Preface by)
  
• Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
  by Emily Bazelon (Author)
  
• Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
  Keri Blakinger (Author)
• Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
  By Helen Prejean (Author)  Desmond Tutu (Preface by)  Susan Sarandon (Afterword by)  Tim Robbins (Afterword by)
• Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
  By Reuben Jonathan Miller (Author)
• Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison
  by Bruce Western (Author)
  
• Impacts of Sex Crime Laws on the Female Partners of Convicted Offenders 1st Edition
  by Lisa Anne Zilney (Author)
• Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
  By Alisa Roth (Author)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
  By Bryan Stevenson (Author)
• Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
  By John Pfaff (Author)
• Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
  Vincent Schiraldi (Author)
• "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
  By Victoria Law (Author)
• Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us
  By Emily Horowitz (Author)
• The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
  Kristin Henning (Author)
• Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System
  By Elliott Young (Author)
• From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear
  By Emily Horowitz (Author)
  
• Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover
  Jeffrey Bellin (Author)
• Manufacturing Criminals: Fourth Amendment Decay in the Electronic Age
  By Bonnie Burkhardt (Author)
• Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
  Gilbert Herdt (Editor)
• Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
  By Peter Edelman (Author)
• The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison
  Pen America (Author)  Caits Meissner (Editor)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
  By Michelle Alexander (Author)
• The War on Sex
  Trevor Hoppe (Editor)  David M. Halperin (Editor)
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
  Danielle Sered
• Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
  Wendy A. Bach (Author)
• Prisoners of Politics
  By Rachel Elise Barlow (Author)
• Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
  By Carissa Byrne Hessick (Author)
• Sex Panic and the Punitive State
  Roger N. Lancaster (Author)
  
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  By Douglas A. Blackmon (Author)
• Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
  By Paul Renfro
  
• Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community
  Jeffrey D Korzenik (Author)
• Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
  By Alec Karakatsanis
  
• You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
  Justin Brooks (Author)  Barry Scheck (Foreword by)

Feminism

• The Feminist & The Sex Offender
  by Judith Levine (Author) & Erica Meiners (Author)
  
• Abolition Feminism Now!
  By Angela Y. Davis (Author), Gina Dent (Author), Erica R. Meiners (Author), and Beth E. Richie (Author)
  
• The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
  By Aya Gruber (Author)
• Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot
  By Mikki Kendall (Author)

Restorative Justice/Practice

• The Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume
  By Allan MacRae (Author)  Kay Pranis (Author)  Howard Zehr (Author)
• On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
  Danya Ruttenberg (Author)
• Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times (Anniversary)
  By Howard Zehr (Author)
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse: Hope Through Trauma
  By Judah Oudshoorn (Author)  Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz (Author)  Michelle Jackett (Author)
• Healing from Sexual Violence: The Case for Vicarious Restorative Justice
  by Alissa Ackerman, PhD (Author), and Jill Levenson, PhD (Author)
• A Different Path for Confronting Sexual Assault (Vox Article) by sujatha baliga (Author)
• Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction
  Lara Bazelon (Author)
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
  Danielle Sered (Author)

Abolition

• Are Prisons Obsolete?
  By Angela Y. Davis (Author)
• Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
  By Maya Schenwar (Author) & Victoria Law (Author)
• We Do This Till We Free Us
  By Miriame Kaba (Author)
• Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
  By Zach Norris (Author)
• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
  By Eric A. Stanley (Editor)  Nat Smith (Editor)  Cece McDonald (Foreword by)
• All About Love 
  By Bell Hooks (Author)
• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Volume 21
  By Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Author)
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle
  by Angela Y. Davis (Author)
• Resisting State Violence
  By Joy James (Author)
• Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
  By Derecka Purnell (Author)