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Title Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons / edited by Colin Kaepernick.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]
©2021
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2087382~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  365.973 ABO    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  365.973 ABO    AVAILABLE
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Description 302 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284)
Contents Police & policing -- Prisons and carcerality -- Fuck reform -- Abolition now.
Summary Abolition for the People begins by uncovering the lethal anti-Black histories of policing and incarceration in the United States. Juxtaposing today’s moment with 19th-century movements for the abolition of slavery, freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis writes “Just as we hear calls today for a more humane policing, people then called for a more humane slavery.” Drawing on decades of scholarship and personal experience, each author deftly refutes the notion that police and prisons can be made fairer and more humane through piecemeal reformation. As Derecka Purnell argues, “reforms do not make the criminal legal system more just, but obscure its violence more efficiently.”
Subject Prisons -- United States.
Prison-industrial complex.
Police -- United States.
Police brutality -- United States.
Social justice -- United States.
Prison abolition movements -- United States -- 21st century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Added Author Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- editor.
ISBN 9781595911162 (hardback)
1595911162 (hardback)
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