SOURCES
Our Sources
Cole, Desmond. The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Doubleday Canada, 2020.
Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press, 2003.
Hill, Marc Lamont, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility. 2020.
Kaba, Mariame, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Haymarket Books, 2021.
Frideres, James S. First Nations in the Twenty-First Century. Don Mills, Ont: OUP Canada, 2011. Print.
Levine, Judith and Erica R Meiners, The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State
Violence. Verso, 2020
Maher, Geo, "Building Communities without Police," A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops
Obsolete. Verso, 2021. 127-156
Maynard,Robyn, "Police Abolition/Black Revolt," Topia, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Number 41, Fall 2020.
pp. 70-78
Meiners, Erica. For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
NAACP. "The Origins of Modern Day Policing," NAACP.org. https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing
Smith, Clint. How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. New York, NY: Little, Brown,
and Company, 2021
Walcott, Rinaldo. On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition. Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2021
Walia, Harsha, Border Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Fernwood Publishing, 2021
Other Links/Resources
If you're interested in any of these ideas and you'd like further information, or if you learn primarily through videos instead, please consider taking a look at the following resources.
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Web Pages:
Police do not Belong in Public Schools
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Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools
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The Data is Clear: Police Do Not Belong in Chicago Public Schools
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Videos:
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Why Adding Black Cops to the Police Won't Solve the Problem
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Why Abolition is the Answer, not Defunding
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Is Punishment Justice? What Are Other Options?
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Economic Factors that Contribute to Crime
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Note: While this video does not focus on abolition, it does show how existing structures in our society perpetuate the ideals and actions that might lead people to prison. It suggests that by focusing on the root cause, the idea of crime - and thus the purpose of prisons and policing - we can work to change the way that harm is conceptualized.