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Contents

·Books and Reports

·Articles

·Online

Recommended Reading

Books and Reports:

Belknap, J. (2000). The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice. Belmont, California: Wadsworth.

Bissonnette, J. (August 2007). When the Prisons Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press.

Blakely, C. (January 1, 2005). America's Prisons: The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization . Boca Raton, Florida: Brown Walker Press.

Currie, E. (1998). Crime and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked and What Will . New York: Henry Holt.

Davis, A. (October, 2005). Abolition Democracy: Prisons, Democracy, and Empire . New York: Seven Stories Press.

Davis, A. (April, 2003). Are Prisons Obsolete ? New York: Seven Stories Press.

Dyer, J. (January 2001). The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime . Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Elsner, A. (January 6, 2006). Gates of Injustice: Crisis in America's Prisons . Upper Saddie River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Fine, M., Torre, M.E., Boudin, K., Bowen, I., Clark, J., Hylton, D., Martinez, M., Roberts, R.A., M., Smart, P., & Upegui, D. (2001). Changing Minds: The Impact of College in Maximum Security Prison. NY: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Full report available free online at www.changingminds.ws.

Fine, M., Torre, M.E., Boudin, K., Bowen, I., Clark, J., Hylton, D., Martinez, M., ÒMissy,Ó Rivera, M., Roberts, R.A., Smart, P. & Upegui, D. (2003). Participatory action research: Within and beyond bars. In Camic, P., Rhodes, J.E., & Yardley, L. (Eds.), Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design (pp. 173-198). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Foucault, M. (1979). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . New York: Vintage.

Gilmore, R. W. (January 8, 2007). Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California . Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Girshick, L.B. (1999). No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison . Boston, Northeastern University Press.

Golden, Renny. (August 30, 2005). War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Left Behind . London: Routledge.

Hallinan, J.T. (2001). Going Up River: Travels in a Prison Nation . New York: Random House.

Howe, A. (1994). Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality . New York, Routledge.

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (March 12, 2007). Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Prison Industrial Complex . Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press.

Jacobsen, M. (September 1, 2006). Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration . New York: New York University Press.

Johnson, R. (1987). Hard Time: Understanding and Reforming the Prison . Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole.

Magnani, L. and H.L. Wray (May 30, 2006). Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System . Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press.

Mauer, M. (1999). Race to Incarcerate. New York, New Press.

Miller, J.G. (1996). Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System . Cambridge: Cambridge University.

Naffine, N. (1996). Feminism and Criminality . Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Owen, B. (1998). In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison . New York, SUNY Press.

Parenti, C. (October, 2005). Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis . London: Verso Books.

Prison Research Education Action (Eds.) (January 25, 2006). Instead of Prisons . Oakland, California: Critical Resistance.

Rathbone, C. (January 13, 2006). A Life Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars . New York: Random House Trade Publishers.

Rieman, J. (1998). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice . Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Rierden, A. (June 1997). The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison . Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press.

Scheffler, J.A., eds. (1986). Wall Tappings: An Anthology of Writings By Women Prisoners . Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Sudbury, J. (January 18, 2005). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. New York: Routledge.

Watterson, K. (January 18, 1996). Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb . Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Wright, P. (January 10, 2003). Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor . London: Routledge.

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Articles:

Conley, J. A. (Winter, 1980). Prisons, Production, and Profit: Reconsidering the Importance of Prison Industries. Journal of Social History , 14(2): 257-275.

Davis, A. and Rodriguez, A. (September 2000). The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation. Social Justice , 27(3): 212.

Davis, A. (1999). A World Unto Itself: Multiple Invisibilities of Imprisonment. Behind the Razor Wire: A Portrait of a Contemporary Prison , eds. M. Jacobsen-Hardy, ix-xvii. New York: New York University Press.

Davis, A. and Dent, G. (Summer 2001). Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment. Signs , 26(4):1235-1241.

Fine, M. & Torre, M.E. (2006). Intimate Details: Participatory Action Research in Prison. Action Research, 4 (3), 253-269.

Garland, D. and Young, P. (1983). Toward a Social Analysis of Penality. Power to Punish , eds. Gardland D. and Young, P., 1-36. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities.

Gilmore, R.W. (1998/1999). Globalization and U.S. Prison Growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism. Race and Class , 40(2-3):171-188.

Gordon, A. F. (1998). Globalization and the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis. Race and Class , 40(2-3): 145-157.

Ignatieff, M. (1983). State, Civil Society, and Total Institutions: A Critique of Recent Social Histories of Punishment. Social Control and the State: Historical and Comparative Essays . eds. S. Cohen and A. Scull, 75-105. Oxford: Robertson.

Jacobsen, C. (Winter 2007). Battered Women, Homicide Convictions and Sentencing: A Case for Clemency. Hastings Women's Law Journal 18(1): 31-66.

Rhodes, L. A. (2001). Toward an Anthropology of Prisons. Annual Review of Anthropology , 30: 65-83.

Sim, J. (1994). Tougher than the Rest? Men in Prison. Just Boys Doing Business: Men, Masculinities, and Crime , eds. T. Newbum and E.A. Stanko, 100-117. London: Routledge.

Torre, M.E. & Fine, M. (2005). Bar none: Extending affirmative action to higher education in prison. Journal of Social Issues, 61 (3), 569-594.

Wacquant, L. (2000). The New "Peculiar Institution": On Prison as a Surrogate Ghetto. Theor. Criminol , 4(3): 377-389.

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Online:

Davidson, H. (Summer 1988). Prisoners on Prison Abolition. Journal of Prisoners on Prison 1(1), 1-2. Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.jpp.org/documents/forms/JPP1_1/EditorNote.pdf.

Davis, A. and Rodriguez, D. (September 2000). The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation. Social Justice , 27(3), 212. Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davisinterview.html.

Hand-Boniakowski. J.E. (2000) Thinking Outside the Box: Prison Abolition. Metaphoria ,7(12). Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.metaphoria.org/ac4t0008.html.

How the New York Board of Correction Fails Women and Men. Feminist Law Professors . Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=1843.

Prison Book Program Blog. Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.prisonbookprogram.org/blog/index.html.

Prison Diaries: An Intimate Portrait of Life Behind Bars: National Public Radio: All Things Considered . Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/prisondiaries/.

The Number of Adults in the Correctional Population Has Been Increasing. U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics . Retrieved June 26, 2007, from: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corr2.htm.

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