Berger, Dan and Mariame Kaba and David Stein (2017). ‘What Abolitionists do,’ Jacobinmag.com [5 pages]
Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter (2015) Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion (2015). [first 14mins of Video] The Laura Flanders Show.
Ben-Moshe, L. (2013) The Tension Between Abolition and Reform. In: Nagel, M. E. and Nocella, A. J. (eds.) The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement. Amsterdam: Value Inquriy Book Series, pp.83-92.
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Maya Dukmasova (2016) ‘Abolish the police? Organizers say its less crazy than it seems’. Chicago Reader.
John Moore (2018) Less eligibility: Why prison reform fails.
Anand Teltumbde (2025) ‘The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir’
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2012) ‘Don’t reform prisons, abolish them’. [Video]
Ru & Adam / London Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCAPSV) (2020) From Minneapolis to London: Who Polices the Police? FreedomNews.org
John Moore (2018) Less eligibility: Why prison reform fails.
Sara Chitseko (2020) Abolition not Reformation. 4Frontproject.org (2 pages)
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S Lamble (2014) The marketisation of prison alternatives. Criminal Justice Matters No 97, p 14-15.
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Micah Herskind (2020) Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for 'Nonviolent Offenders.' Medium.com [9 pages]
Victoria Law (2011) Protection without Police: North American Community Responses to Violence in the 1970s and Today. Upping the Anti.