Critical Police Studies Bibliography
The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College
Alex S. Vitale, Coordinator
This is an open access resource for scholars, researchers, teachers, and activists. It is also a community work in progress. Right now we are only including books, but in the future we hope to expand to articles, reports, and other types of materials. It is also not very historical. Most of the references are less than 10 years old. Feel free to suggest additions as comments in the relevant category and please share with others.
Books are organized under subject headings which are hyperlinked below. Books may appear under multiple headings.
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Last updated December 22, 2025
List of Headings
Colonial/Post-Colonial/Imperialism
Abolition
Aliverti, Ana, et al., editors. 2023. Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. Oxford University Press.
Bentounsi, Amal et al. 2020. Police. Paris; La Fabrique.
Camp, Jordan and Christina Heatherton. 2016. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso.
Clarno, Andy, et al. 2024. Imperial Policing: Weaponizing Data in Carceral Chicago. University of Minnesota Press.
Collectif Matsuda. 2021. Abolir La Police: Echos des Etats Unis. NIET.
Correia, David and Tyler Wall. 2018. Police: A Field Guide. Verso.
Cullors, Patrisse. 2021. 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World: An Abolitionist’s Handbook. St. Martin’s Press.
Cunneen, Chris. 2023. Defund the Police: An International Insurrection. Policy Press.
Davis, Angela. 2024. Abolition: Politics, Practice, Promises. Haymarket Books.
Davis, Angela, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. 2022. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books.
Day, Aviah Sarah and Shanice Octavia McBean. 2022. Abolition Revolution. Pluto Press.
Duff, Koshka ed. 2021. Abolish the Police. Dog Press.
Fatsis, Lambros and Melayna Lamb, 2022. Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order. Policy Press.
Gaskew, Tony. 2021. Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation. Rowman and Littlefield.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2022. Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.
Goodmark, Leigh. 2023. Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism. University of California Press.
Gray-Garcia, Tiny, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Jeremy Miller, Joey Villareal, Muteado Silencio, Aunty Frances Moore, and all POOR Magazine Family. 2020. How to not Call the Po’lice Ever. Poor Magazine.
Hudson, Sandy. 2025. Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All. New York: Pantheon.
Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This Till We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice. Haymarket
Kaba, Mariame and Andrea Ritchie. 2022. No More Police. The New Press.
Kapernick, Colin. Ed. 2022. Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Police and Prisons. Kapernick Publishing.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse. 2017. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin’s Press.
Kolhatkar, Sonali. 2025. Talking About Abolition: A Police Free World is Possible. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Krinks, Andrew. 2024. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. New York: NYU Press.
Loick, Daniel and Vanessa E. Thompson, eds. 2022. Abolitionismus: Ein Reader. Suhrkamp
Maher, Geo. 2022. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Verso.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing.
McHarris, Philip. 2024. Beyond Policing. Legacy Lit.
Mukerjee, Ronica and Carlos Martinez eds. 2025. All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, And Borders. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Pasternack, Shiri, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk. 2022. Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada. Between the Lines.
Peterson, Marlon. 2021. Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist Freedom Song. Bold Type Books.
Purnell, Derecka. 2021. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom. Astra House.
Ricordeau, Gwenola. 2023. 1312 Raisons d'Abolir la Police. Lux Canada.
Rocher, Paul. 2022. Que Fait La Police? Et Comment s’en Passer. Paris; La Fabrique.
Schenwar, Maya and Victoria Law. 2020. Prison by any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms.
Shah, Silky, 2024. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Haymarket.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Suriel, Yalie, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Martin Dizon, and John J. Sloan eds. 2024. Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence. University of Washington Press.
Tastrom, Katie. 2024. A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice. PM Press.
Thuma, Emily. 2019. All Our Trials: Prisons. Policing and the Feminist Fight to End Violence. University of Illinois Press.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Walcott, Rinaldo. 2021. On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition. Biblioasis.
Wang, Jackie. 2018. Carceral Capitalism. MIT Press.
Whitener, Brain and Dawn Marie Paley eds. 2024. Abolir Ya! Ensa Yos Hacia un Mundo Sin Policia. Bajo Tierra.
Whitlock, Kay and Nancy Heitzeg. 2021. Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform. UC Press.
Williams, Kristian. 2014. Fire the Cops! Kersplebedes.
Wilt, James. 2024. Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police. ARP Books.
Winston, Celeste. 2023. How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and World Beyond Police. Duke University Press.
Abusive/Corrupt Policing
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2018. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. University of Minnesota Press.
Balko, Radley. 2014. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. Public Affairs.
Barron, Justine. 2023. They Killed Freddie Gray: Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-up. Arcade Publishing.
Cazanave, Noel. 2018. Killing African Americans; Police Violence and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism.
Chevigny, Paul. 1997 Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas. The New Press.
Chicago Police Torture Victims. 2019. Tortured by Blue: The Chicago Police Torture Story. Balboa Press.
Czitrom, Daniel J. 2016. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era. Oxford.
Dale, Elizabeth. 2016. Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871–1971. Northern Illinois University Press.
Fishman, Jared. 2023. Fire on the Levee The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina. Simon and Schuster.
Garcia-Roberts. 2022. Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop. Public Affairs.
Gorrie, Veronica ed. 2024. When Cops are Criminals. Scribe Publications. [Australia]
Green, Elon. 2025. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York. New York: Celadon.
Harris, LaShawn. 2025. Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpers and the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City. New York: Beacon Press.
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
Jeursen, Thijs. 2023. The Vigilant Citizen: Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami. NYU Press.
Johnson, Marilynn S. 2003. Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City. Boston: Beacon Press.
Kane, Robert and Michael D. White. 2013. Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department. NYU Press.
Kitchen, Ronald with Thai Jones and Logan McBride. 2018. My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row. Chicago Review Press.
Kurwa, Rahim. 2025. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lokaneeta, Jinee, 2020. Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. University of Michigan Press.
Moore, Leonard N. 2010. Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Neidermeyer, Silvan. 2021, The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955. University of North Carolina Press.
Nelson, Jill. 2001. Police Brutality: An Anthology. W.W. Norton & Company.
Roslin, Alex. 2015. Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Sugar Hill Books.
Sierra-Arevalo, Michael. 2024. The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of
Policing. Columbia University Press.
Simon, Samantha J. 2024. Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence. NYU Press.
Spence, Gerry. 2016. Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder. St. Martin's
Press.
Suriel, Yalie, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Martin Dizon, and John J. Sloan eds. 2024. Copson Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence. University of Washington Press.
Taibbi, Matt. 2017. I Can’t Breath: A Killing on Bay Street. Spiegel and Grau.
Taylor, Flint. 2019. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago. Haymarket Books.
Thusi, I. India. 2022. Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johanesburg. Stanford University Press.
Waseem, Zoha. 2022. Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi. Oxford.
Way, Lori Beth and Ryan Patten, 2013. Hunting for “Dirtbags” Why Cops Over-Police the Poor and Racial Minorities. Northeastern University Press.
White, Michael D., and Henry F. Fradella. 2016. Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic. New York: New York University Press.
Williams, Kristian. 2026. Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, From Settlement to Uprising. Chico, CA: AK Press.
Wilt, James. 2024. Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police. ARP Books.
Winston, Ali and Darwin Bondgraham. 2023. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. Simon and Schuster.
Woods, Baynard and Brandon Soderberg. 2020. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. St. Martin's Press.
Borders/Immigration
Aliverti, Ana. 2021. Policing the Borders Within. Oxford University Press.
Armenta, Amada. 2017. Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement. University of California Press.
Arriaga, Felicia. 2023. Behind Crimigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America. Durham: UNC Press..
Behnken, Brian D. 2022. Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexican Americans and Law Enforcement in the Southwest: 1835-1935. UNC Press.
Côté-Boucher, Karine. 2020. Border Frictions: Gender, generation and technology on the frontline. Routledge.
Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. 2015. Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism. NYU Press.
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. 2010. Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. University of California Press.
Jones, Reese. 2022. Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States. Counterpoint.
Karibo, Holly M. and George T. Diaz eds. 2024. Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America. University of Texas Press.
Lopez, William. 2019. Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of An Immigration Raid. Johns Hopkins Press.
Lopez, William. 2025. Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Mancia, Peter. 2025. On the Side of ICE: Policing Migrants in a Sanctuary State. New York;
NYU Press.
Miller, Todd. 2014. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security.
City Lights.
Miller, Todd. 2019. Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World. Verso.
Mukerjee, Ronica and Carlos Martinez eds. 2025. All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, And Borders. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Muñiz, Ana. 2022. Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond. Univ of California Press.
Patiño, Jimmy. 2017. Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego. UNC Press Books.
Shah, Silky, 2024. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Haymarket.
Sun, Ivan Y., and Yuning Wu. 2018. Race, Immigration, and Social Control: Immigrants’ Views on the Police. Springer.
Traux, Eileen. 2018. We Built The Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond. Verso.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Washington, John. 2024. The Case for Open Borders. Haymarket Books.
Colonial/Post-Colonial/Imperialism
Aliverti, Ana, et al., editors. 2023. Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. Oxford University Press.
Bretas, M. 1997. Ordem na Cidade: O Cotidiano da Autoridade Policial no Rio de Janeiro, 1907– 1930. Rocco.
Brogden, M. and Ellison, G. 2013. Policing in an Age of Austerity: A Postcolonial Perspective. Routledge.
Cavalcanti, Roxan, Peter Squires and Zoha Waseem. eds. 2023. Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order. Bristol University Press.
Cunneen, Chris. 2023. Defund the Police: An International Insurrection. Policy Press.
Go, Julian. 2023. Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press.
Holloway, Thomas. 1993. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th Century City. Stanford UP.
Hönke, J. and Müller, M.. eds. 2016. The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
Kumar, Radha. 2021. Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975. Cornel UP.
McCoy, Alfred. 2009. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. University of Wisconsin Press.
O’Reilly, C. ed. 2017. Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community. Routledge.
Prakash, Amit. 2022. Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975. Oxford.
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Sinclair, Georgina. 2006. At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80. Manchester UP.
Subramanian, K.S. 2007. Political Violence and the Police in India. Sage.
Thomas, Martin. 2015. Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940. Cambridge University PRess.
Waseem, Zoha. 2022. Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi. Oxford.
Wozniak, Jesse. 2021. Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State. University of California Press.
Community Policing
Cheng, Tony. 2023. The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of
Public Input. University of Chicago Press.
Gascon, Luis Daniel and Aaron Roussell. 2019. The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles. NYU Press.
Herbert, Steve. 2009. Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community Policing. University of Chicago Press.
Umbach, Gregory Holcomb. 2011. The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Courts/Jails
Bazelon, Emily. 2019. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration. Random House.
Kohler-Hausmann, Issa. 2018. Misdemeanor Land: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
Lvovsky, Anna. 2021. Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts and the Struggle Over Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago.
Shanahan, Jarrod. Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage. Verso. 2022.
Tiger, Rebecca. 2013. Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and the Coercive Justice System. NYU.
Drugs
Bartilow, Horace. 2019. Drug War Pathologies: Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas. UNC Press
Baum, Dan. 1996. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. Back Bay Books.
Currie, Elliot. 1991. Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth. Pantheon.
Duran-Martinez, Angelica. 2018. The Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico. New York: Oxford.
Felker-Kantor, Max. 2024. DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools. University of North Carolina Press.
Garriott, William. 2011. Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America. NYU Press.
Hari, Johann. 2015. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. Bloomsbury.
Koram, Kojo ed. 2019. The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line. Pluto Press.
Lassiter, Matthew D. 2023. The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Linnemann, Travis. 2016. Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power. NYU Press.
Moskos, Peter. 2009. Cop in the Hood. Princeton University Press.
Mukerjee, Ronica and Carlos Martinez eds. 2025. All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, And Borders. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Nadelmann, Ethan. 1993. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement. Penn State Press.
Paley, Dawn. 2014. Drug War Capitalism. AK Press.
Phillips, Susan A. 2012. Operation Fly Trap: L.A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law. University of Chicago Press.
Reding, Nick. 2009. Methland: The Death and Life of An American Small Town. Bloomsbury.
Revier, Kevin. 2025. Policing Pain: The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and the New Ethic of Care. New York: NYU Press.
Rolles, Steve, 2017. NoNonsense Legalizing Drugs: How to End the War. New Internationalist
Shuler, Jack. 2020. This is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America.
Tiger, Rebecca. 2013. Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and the Coercive Justice System. NYU.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Way, Lori Beth and Ryan Patten, 2013. Hunting for “Dirtbags” Why Cops Over-Police the Poor and Racial Minorities. Northeastern University Press.
Federal
Gage, Beverly. 2022. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Viking.
German, Michael. 2019. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy. The New Press.
German, Michael. 2024. Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within. New York: the New Press.
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. 2010. Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. University of California Press.
Jones, Reese. 2022. Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States. Counterpoint.
Lopez, William. 2019. Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of An Immigration Raid. Johns Hopkins Press.
Martin, Lerone A. 2023. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism. Princeton University Press.
McGirr, Lisa. 2016. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Miller, Todd. 2014. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security.
City Lights.
Miller, Todd. 2019. Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World. Verso.
Muñiz, Ana. 2022. Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond. Univ of California Press.
Paley, Dawn. 2014. Drug War Capitalism. AK Press.
Phillips, Susan A. 2012. Operation Fly Trap: L.A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law. University of Chicago Press.
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Traux, Eileen. 2018. We Built The Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond. Verso.
Weiner, Tim. 2013. Enemies: A History of the FBI. Random House.
Gangs
Aspholm, Roberto R. 2020. Views from the Streets: The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago’s South Side. New York: Columbia University Press.
Aurelien, Maxine and Ted Rutland. 2023. Out To Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal's First Haitian Street Gang. Fernwood Publishing.
Brotherton, David C. 2015. Youth Street Gangs: A Critical Appraisal. Routledge.
Brotherton, David C. and Rafael Jose Gude eds. 2022. Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies. Routledge.
Hallsworth, Simon. 2013. The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan.
Klein, Malcolm. 2004. Gang Cop: The Words and Ways of Paco Domingo. Altamira Press.
Levell, Jade, Terra Young and Rod Earle. eds. 2023. Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-road. Bristol University Press
Muñiz, Ana. 2015. Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries. Rutgers University Press.
WIlliams, Kristian. 2022, Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime. AK Press.
Gender
Appier, Janis. 1998. Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD. Temple.
Barrie, David G., and Susan. Broomhall. 2012. A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010. Routledge.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Davis, Angela, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. 2022. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket.
Fischer, Anne Gray. 2022. The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. UNC Press.
Goodmark, Leigh. 2018. Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. University of California Press.
Goodmark, Leigh. 2023. Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism. University of California Press.
Gruber, Aya. 2020. The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration. University of California Press.
Pasternack, Shiri, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk. 2022. Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada. Between the Lines.
Purnell, Derecka. 2021. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom. Astra House.
Richie, Beth. 2012: Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, And America’s Prison Nation.
New York: NYU Press.
Ritchie, Andrea. 2017. Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon.
Roslin, Alex. 2015. Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Sugar Hill Books.
Thuma, Emily. 2019. All Our Trials: Prisons. Policing and the Feminist Fight to End Violence. University of Illinois Press.
Thusi, I. India. 2022. Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johanesburg. Stanford University Press.
Westmarland, Louise. 2012. Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture. Routledge.
Global
Aliverti, Ana, et al., editors. 2023. Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. Oxford University Press.
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2018. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. University of Minnesota Press.
Blaustein, J. 2015. Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Oxford University Press.
Bretas, M. 1997. Ordem na Cidade: O Cotidiano da Autoridade Policial no Rio de Janeiro, 1907– 1930. Rocco.
Brogden, M. and Ellison, G. 2013. Policing in an Age of Austerity: A Postcolonial Perspective. Routledge.
Chevigny, Paul. 1997 Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas. The New Press.
Cunneen, Chris. 2023. Defund the Police: An International Insurrection. Policy Press.
Della Porta, Donatell and Herbert Reiter eds. 1998. Policing Protests: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies. Minnesota University Press.
Dewey, Susan and Patty Kelly, eds. 2011. Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective. NYU Press.
Diphoorn, Tessa. 2016. Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa. UNC Press.
Duff, Koshka ed. 2021. Abolish the Police. Dog Press.
Duran-Martinez, Angelica. 2018. The Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico. New York: Oxford.
Fabini, Giulia, Enrico Gargiulo and Simone Tuzza. 2023. Polizia: Un Vocabolario Dell’Ordine. Mondadori University Press.
Fassin, Didier. 2013. Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing. Polity.
Fassin, Didier. 2017. Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes. UC Press.
Fassin, Didier, Frederic Debomy, and Jake Raynal. 2023. Policing the City; An Ethno-Graphic. Other Press. [France].
Fillieul, Olivier and Fabian Jobard. 1997. The Policing of Protest in France. Toward a Model of Protest Policing. EUI.
Fillieul, Olivier and Fabian Jobard. 2020. Politiques du désordre. Police et manifestations en France. Le Seuil.
Peršak, Nina. and Anna Di Ronco. eds. 2021. Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility. Routledge.
Garcia, Sergio Garcia, Ignacio Mendiola, Debora Avila, Laurant Bonelli, Jose Angel Brandariz, Cristina Fernandez Bessa, and Manuel Maroto Calatayud. 2021. Metropolis: Seguridad y Policia en la Ciudad Neoliberal.
Gendrot, Valetin. 2021. Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates the Police. Scribe. [France]
Gendrot, Valetin and Thierry Chavant (ill). 2023. Flic: The True Story of the Journalist who Infiltrated the Police. Scribe. [France]
Go, Julian. 2023. Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press
Gonzalez, Yanilda, Maria. 2020. Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.
Gorrie, Veronica ed. 2024. When Cops are Criminals. Scribe Publications. [Australia]
Hills, Alice. 2009. Policing Post-Conflict Cities. Zed Books.
Hinton, Mercedes and Tim Newburn eds. 2009. Policing Developing Democracies. Routledge.
Holloway, Thomas. 1993. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th Century City. Stanford UP.
Hönke, J. and Müller, M.. eds. 2016. The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
Jobard, Fabien and Florent Calvez (ill). 2023. Global Police: La Question Policiere dans le Monde et l'histoire. Delcourt.
Kumar, Radha. 2021. Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975. Cornel UP.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy. 2012. Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century. University of Mass. Press.
Loick, Daniel and Vanessa E. Thompson, eds. 2022. Abolitionismus: Ein Reader. Suhrkamp
Lokaneeta, Jinee, 2020. Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. University of Michigan Press.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing.
McCoy, Alfred. 2009. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. University of Wisconsin Press.
Muller, Markus-Michael. 2016. The Punitive City: Privatized Policing in Neoliberal Mexico. Zed Books.
Nadelmann, Ethan. 1993. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement. Penn State Press.
O’Reilly, C. ed. 2017. Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community. Routledge.
Pasternak, Shiri, Walby, Kevin and Stadnyk, Abby. 2022. Disarm Defund Dismantle. Police Abolition in Canada. Between the LInes.
Prakash, Amit. 2022. Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975. Oxford.
Ricordeau, Gwenola. 2023. 1312 Raisons d'Abolir la Police. Lux Canada.
Robinson, William I. 2020. The Global Police State. Pluto Press.
Samara, Tony Roshan. 2011. Cape Town After Apartheid; Crime and Governance in the Divided City. Minnesota UP.
Schneider, Cathy Lisa. 2014. Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Scoggins, Suzanne. 2021. Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest. Cornell UP.
Shih, Elena. 2023. Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue. University of California Press.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Sinclair, Georgina. 2006. At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80. Manchester UP.
Stuurman, Ziyanda. 2021. Can We Be Safe: The Future of Policing in South Africa. Tafelberg.
Subramanian, K.S. 2007. Political Violence and the Police in India. Sage.
Thomas, Martin. 2015. Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940. Cambridge University PRess.
Thusi, I. India. 2022. Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johanesburg. Stanford University Press.
Waseem, Zoha. 2022. Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi. Oxford.
Weis, Valeria Vesh. ed. 2022. Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives. Routledge.
Whitener, Brain and Dawn Marie Paley eds. 2024. Abolir Ya! Ensa Yos Hacia un Mundo Sin Policia. Bajo Tierra.
Wilt, James. 2024. Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police. ARP Books.
Wozniak, Jesse. 2021. Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
Yonucu, Deniz. 2022. Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Turkey. Cornell University Press.
Graphic Novel/Comic
Fassin, Didier, Frederic Debomy, and Jake Raynal. 2023. Policing the City; An Ethno-Graphic. Other Press. [France].
Gendrot, Valetin and Thierry Chavant (ill) 2023. Flic: The True Story of the Journalist who Infiltrated the Police. Scribe. [France]
Jobard, Fabien and Florent Calvez (ill). 2023. Global Police: La Question Policiere dans le Monde et l'histoire. Delcourt.
Molcher, Michael. 2023. I am the Law; How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future. Rebellion.
History
Adler, Jeffrey. 2019. Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing. University of Chicago Press.
Adler, Jeffrey. 2024. Blue Coated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality. University of California Press.
Agee, Christopher. 2014. The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950 -1970. University of Chicago Press.
Appier, Janis. 1998. Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD. Temple.
Baker, Andrew. 2021. To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America. The New Press.
Balto, Simon. 2019. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago: From Red Summer to Black Power. UNC Press.
Barrie, David G., and Susan. Broomhall. 2012. A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010. Routledge.
Behnken, Brian D. 2022. Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexican Americans and Law Enforcement in the Southwest: 1835-1935. UNC Press.
Behnken, Brian D. 2025. Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil
Rights in the Southwest, 1935-2025. Durham: University of North Carolina.
Bretas, M. 1997. Ordem na Cidade: O Cotidiano da Autoridade Policial no Rio de Janeiro, 1907– 1930. Rocco.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Brucato, Ben. 2023. Race and Police: The Origins of Our Peculiar Institutions. Rutgers University Press.
Czitrom, Daniel J. 2016. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era. Oxford.
Dale, Elizabeth. 2016. Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871–1971. Northern Illinois University Press.
Davis, Angela, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. 2022. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket.
Elliott-Cooper, Adam. 2021 Black Resistance to British Policing. Manchester University Press.
Escobar, Edward J. 1999. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. University of California Press.
Felker-Kantor, Max. 2018. Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance and the Rise of the LAPD. UNC Press.
Gage, Beverly. 2022. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Viking.
Garland, David. 2025. Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment. Princeton University Press.
Go, Julian 2023. Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press
Goluboff, Risa Lauren. 2016. Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford University Press.
Guariglia, Matthew. 2023. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. Duke University Press.
Hadden, Sally, 2001. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Early Virginia. Harvard University Press.
Harring, Sidney. 2017. Policing a Class Society : the Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915. Haymarket.
Harris, LaShawn. 2025. Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpers and the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City. New York: Beacon Press.
Hinton, Elizabeth. 2021. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Liveright Publishing.
Holloway, Thomas. 1993. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th Century City. Stanford UP.
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
Jett, Brandon. 2021. Race, Crime and Policing in the Jim Crow South. Louisiana State UP.
Johnson, Marilynn S. 2003. Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City. Boston: Beacon Press.
King, Shannon. 2024. The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York. UNC Press.
Krinks, Andrew. 2024. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. New York: NYU Press.
Kumar, Radha. 2021. Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975. Cornel UP.
Lane, Roger. 1977. Policing the City: Boston, 1822-1885. Athenium.
Maher, Geo. 2022. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Verso.
Malka, Adam. 2018. The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation. UNC Press.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives:State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing.
McCoy, Alfred. 2009. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. University of Wisconsin Press.
McGirr, Lisa. 2016. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Mitrani, Sam. 2013. Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894. Illinois UP.
Moore, Leonard N. 2010. Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. 2019. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard University Press.
Murakawa, Naomi. 2014. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press.
Nadelmann, Ethan. 1993. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement. Penn State Press.
Neidermeyer, Silvan. 2021, The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955. University of North Carolina Press.
Neocleous, Mark. 2002, 2021. A Critical Theory of Police Power. Verso.
Nicolazzo, Sal. 2020. Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police. Yale University Press.
Oliver, Willard. 2017. August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.
Oller, John. 2022. Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York. Penguin.
O’Reilly, C. ed. 2017. Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community. Routledge.
Prakash, Amit. 2022. Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975. Oxford.
Randolph, Justin. 2025. Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
Raspa, Darren. 2020. Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. University of Nebraska Press.
Ritchie, Andrea. 2017. Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon.
Roach, Kent. 2022. Canadian Policing: Why and How It Should Change. Delve Books.
Rubenstein, Jonathan. 1980. City Police. Hill and Wang.
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Seo, Sarah A. 2019. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. Harvard Univ. Press.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Sinclair, Georgina. 2006. At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80. Manchester UP.
Taylor, Clarence. 2019. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. NYU Press.
Thomas, Martin. 2015. Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940. Cambridge University PRess.
Thuma, Emily. 2019. All Our Trials: Prisons. Policing and the Feminist Fight to End Violence. University of Illinois Press.
Vaz, Matthew. 2020. Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling. University of Chicago Press.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Wagner, Bryan. 2009. Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery. Harvard University Press.
Walcott, Rinaldo. 2021. On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition. Biblioasis.
Williams, Kristian. 2026. Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, From Settlement to Uprising. Chico, CA: AK Press.
Wilson, Christopher. 2000. Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America. University of Chicago Press.
Wilt, James. 2024. Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police. ARP Books.
Winston, Celeste. 2023. How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and World Beyond Police. Duke University Press.
Wolcott, David B. 2005. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Homelessness
Beckett, Katherine and Steve Herbert. 2011. Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America. Oxford.
Freistadt. Joshua. 2017. Homeless and Policed: The Racialized Policing of Urban Homeless Mobility. Joshua Freistadt.
Gibson, Kristina. 2011. Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets. NYU Press.
Goluboff, Risa. 2016. Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960’s. Oxford.
Stuart, Forrest. 2018. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row.
University of Chicago Press.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Journalistic
Balko, Radley. 2014. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. Public Affairs.
Barron, Justine. 2023. They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up. Arcade Books.
Brooks, Rosa. 2021. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City. Penguin.
Domanick, Joe. 2015. Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing. Simon and Schuster.
Donaldson, Greg. 1993. The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America. Anchor Books.
Evans, Rob and Paul Lewis. 2014. Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police. Guardian Faber Publishing.
Fishman, Jared. 2023. Fire on the Levee The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina. Simon and Schuster.
Garcia-Roberts, Gus, 2022. Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop. Public Affairs Books.
Gendrot, Valetin. 2021. Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates the Police. Scribe. [France]
Gendrot, Valetin and Thierry Chavant (ill) 2023. Flic: The True Story of the Journalist who Infiltrated the Police. Scribe. [France]
Green, Elon, 2025. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York.
New York: Celadon.
Hayes, Michael. 2023. The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and The Broken Promises of
Police Reform. Kingston Imperial.
O’Dennell, Lawrence. 2018. Deadly Force: How a Badge Became a License to Kill.William Morrow.
Roslin, Alex. 2015. Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Sugar Hill Books.
Samuels, Robert and Toluse Olorunnipa. 2022. His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Viking.
Spence, Gerry. 2016. Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder. St. Martin's Press.
Taibbi, Matt. 2017. I Can’t Breath: A Killing on Bay Street. Spiegel and Grau.
Winston, Ali and Darwin Bondgraham. 2023. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. Simon and Schuster.
Woods, Baynard and Brandon Soderberg. 2020. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. St. Martin's Press.
Latin America
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2018. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. University of Minnesota Press.
Bretas, Marcos. 1997. Ordem na Cidade: O Cotidiano da Autoridade Policial no Rio de Janeiro, 1907– 1930. Rocco.
Chevigny, Paul. 1997 Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas. The New Press.
Duran-Martinez, Angelica. 2018. The Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico. New York: Oxford.
Fassin, Didier. 2017. Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes. UC Press.
Gascón, D., Sclofsky, S., Perez, X., Mesinas, A. M., & Sanabria, J. (Eds.). (2024). Police and State Crime in the Americas: Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives. Springer Nature.
Gonzalez, Yanilda, Maria. 2020. Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.
Hinton, Mercedes and Tim Newburn eds. 2009. Policing Developing Democracies. Routledge.
Holloway, Thomas. 1993. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th Century City. Stanford UP. Muller, Markus-Michael. 2016. The Punitive City: Privatized Policing in Neoliberal Mexico. Zed Books.
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy. 2012. Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century. University of Mass. Press.
Nadelmann, Ethan. 1993. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement. Penn State Press.
Paley, Dawn. 2014. Drug War Capitalism. AK Press.
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Memoires
Chicago Police Torture Victims. 2019. Tortured by Blue: The Chicago Police Torture Story. Balboa Press.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse. 2017. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin’s Press.
Kitchen, Ronald with Thai Jones and Logan McBride. 2018. My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row. Chicago Review Press.
Peterson, Marlon. 2021. Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist Freedom Song. Bold Type Books.
New York City/State
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Cheng, Tony. 2023. The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of
Public Input. University of Chicago Press.
Czitrom, Daniel J. 2016. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era. Oxford.
Daley, Robert. 1973. Target Blue: An Insider's View of the N.Y.P.D. Delacorte Press.
Donaldson, Greg. 1993. The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America. Anchor Books.
Garcia-Roberts. 2022. Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop. Public Affairs.
Gibson, Kristina. 2011. Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets. NYU Press.
Green, Elon, 2025. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York.
New York: Celadon.
Guariglia, Matthew. 2023. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. Duke University Press.
Harris, LaShawn. 2025. Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpers and the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City. New York: Beacon Press.
Hayes, Michael. 2023. The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and The Broken Promises of Police Reform. Kingston Imperial.
Johnson, Marilynn S. 2003. Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City. Boston: Beacon Press.
Kane, Robert and Michael D. White. 2013. Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department. NYU Press.
Karmen, Andrew. 2000. New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crme Crash of the 1990s.
King, Shannon. 2024. The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York. UNC Press.
Lvovsky, Anna. 2021. Vice Patrol: Cops Courts and the Struggle Over Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago.
Oller, John. 2022. Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York. Penguin.
Taibbi, Matt. 2017. I Can’t Breath: A Killing on Bay Street. Spiegel and Grau.
Taylor, Clarence. 2019. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. NYU Press.
Umbach, Gregory Holcomb. 2011. The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Vaz, Matthew. 2020. Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling. University of Chicago Press.
White, Michael D., and Henry F. Fradella. 2016. Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic. New York: New York University Press.
Organizing/Protest Movements
Camp, Jordan and Christina Heatherton. 2016. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso.
Cobbina, Jennifer. 2019. Hands Up Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America. NYU Press.
Cullors, Patrisse. 2021. 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World: An Abolitionist’s Handbook. St. Martin's Press.
Davis, Angela, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. 2022. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket.
Duff, Koshka ed. 2021. Abolish the Police. Dog Press.
Elliott-Cooper, Adam. 2021 Black Resistance to British Policing. Manchester University Press.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2022. Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.
Gray-Garcia, Tiny, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Jeremy Miller, Joey Villareal, Muteado Silencio, Aunty Frances Moore, and all POOR Magazine Family. 2020. How to not Call the Po’lice Ever. Poor Magazine.
Hill, Marc Lamont. 2020. We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility. Haymarket Books.
Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This Till We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice. Haymarket.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse. 2017. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin’s Press.
Pasternack, Shiri, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk. 2022. Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada. Between the Lines.
Patiño, Jimmy. 2017. Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego. UNC Press Books.
Phelps, Michelle, 2024. The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the POlitics of Policing. Princeton University Press.
Purnell, Derecka. 2021. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom. Astra House.
Williams, Kristian. 2014. Fire the Cops! Kersplebedes.
Police Narratives
Brown, David O. 2017. Called to Rise. Ballantine Books.
Couper, David. 2012. Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off about Protest,
Racism, Corruption and the 7 Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police.
Daley, Robert. 1973. Target Blue: An Insider's View of the N.Y.P.D. Delacorte Press.
Horace, Matthew, 2018. The Black and The Blue. Hachet.
Pegues, Corey. 2016. Once a Cop: The Street, The Law, Two Worlds, One Man. Atria Books
Moskos, Peter. 2009. Cop in the Hood. Princeton University Press.
Raymond, Edwin. 2023. An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. Viking.
Stamper, Norm. 2005. Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American
Policing. Nation Books.
Political/Protest Policing
Apuzzo, Matt and Adam Goldman. 2013. Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit…Touchstone.
Bunyan, Tony. 1977. The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain. Quartet Books.
Crosby, Andrew and Jeffrey Monaghan. 2018. Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State. Fernwood Publishing.
Della Porta, Donatella and Herbert Reiter eds. 1998. Policing Protests: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies. Minnesota University Press.
Donner, Frank. 1992. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. University of California Press.
Evans, Rob and Paul Lewis. 2014. Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police. Guardian Faber Publishing.
Feigenbaum, Anna. 2017. Tear Gas. Verso.
Fernandez, Luis. 2008. Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement. Rutgers University Press.
Fillieul, Olivier and Fabian Jobard. 1997. The Policing of Protest in France. Toward a Model of Protest Policing. EUI.
Fillieul, Olivier and Fabian Jobard. 2020. Politiques du désordre. Police et manifestations en France. Le Seuil.
Foot, Matt and Morag Livingstone. 2022. Charged: How The Police Try to Suppress Protest. Verso.
German, Michael. 2024. Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within. New York: the New Press.
Hall, Nathan et al. eds. 2009. Policing and the Legacy of Lawrence. Willan
Huggins, Martha K. 1998. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Duke University Press.
McQuade, Brendan. 2019. Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. University of California Press.
Passavant, Paul A. 2021. Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection. Duke University Press.
Phelps, Michelle, 2024. The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing. Princeton University Press.
Schlembach, Raphael. 2024. Spycops: Secrets and Disclosure on the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Policy Press.
Schneider, Cathy Lisa. 2014. Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
Starr, Amory, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl. 2011. Shutting Down the Streets Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era. NYU Press.
Subramanian, K.S. 2007. Political Violence and the Police in India. Sage.
Thomas, Martin. 2015. Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940. Cambridge University PRess.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Waddington, David. 2007. Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice. Willan Publishing.
Weiner, Tim. 2012. Enemies: A History of the FBI. Random House.
Weis, Valeria Vegh. ed. 2022. Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives. Routledge.
Wood, Lesley J. 2014. Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing. Pluto Press.
Yonucu, Deniz. 2022. Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Turkey. Cornell University Press.
Popular Culture
Linnemann, Travis. 2022. The Horror of Police. Minnesota.
Mocher, Michael. 2022. I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted our Future. Revolution Books.
Private Police/Security
Fronc, Jennifer. 2009. New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era.
University of Chicago Press.
Van Steden, Ronald. 2007. Privatizing Policing: Describing and Explaining the Growth of Private Security. Eleven International Publishing.
Wakefield, Alison. 2015. Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. Routledge.
Race
Adler, Jeffrey. 2024. Blue Coated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality. University of California Press.
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2018. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. University of Minnesota Press.
Armour, Jody. 2020. Nigga Theory: Race Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law. LA Review of Books.
Baker, Andrew. 2021. To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America. The New Press.
Balto, Simon. 2019. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago: From Red Summer to Black Power. UNC Press.
Baumgartner, Frank, Derek Epp and Kelsey Shoub. 2018. Suspect Citizen: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race. Cambridge University Press.
Behnken, Brian D. 2022. Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexican Americans and Law Enforcement in the Southwest: 1835-1935. UNC Press.
Behnken, Brian D. 2025. Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil
Rights in the Southwest, 1935-2025. Durham: University of North Carolina.
Boyles, Andrea. 2015. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing. University of California Press.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Brucato, Ben. 2023. Race and Police: The Origins of our Peculiar Institutions. Rutgers University Press.
Butler, Paul. 2017. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The New Press.
Carbado, Devon W. 2022. Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment. The New Press.
Carlson, Jennifer. 2020. Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race. Princeton.
Cazanave, Noel. 2018. Killing African Americans; Police Violence and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism.
Davis, Angela J ed.. 2017. Policing the Black Man. Pantheon
Elliott-Cooper, Adam. 2021 Black Resistance to British Policing. Manchester University Press.
Epp, Charles, Steven Maynard-Moody and Donald Haider-Karkel. 2014. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. University of Chicago Press.
Escobar, Edward J. 1999. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. University of California Press.
Gaskew, Tony. 2021. Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation. Rowman and Littlefield.Gilmore,
Go, Julian. 2023 (forthcoming) Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press
Gordon, Daanika. 2022. Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Politics and the Remaking of Segregation. NYU Press.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2022. Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.
Guariglia, Matthew. 2023. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. Duke University Press.
Haley, Sarah. 2016. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow
Modernity. University of North Carolina Press.
Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts. 1979, 2017. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hayes, Chris. 2017. A Colony in a Nation. Norton.
Henning, Kristin. 2021. The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Pantheon.
Hinton, Elizabeth. 2021. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Liveright Publishing.
Horace, Matthew, 2018. The Black and The Blue. Hachet.
Hudson, Sandy. 2025. Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All. New York: Pantheon.
Jefferson, Brian. 2020. Digitize and Punish: Racial Discrimination and the Digital Age. University of Minnesota Press.
Jett, Brandon. 2021. Race, Crime and Policing in the Jim Crow South. Louisiana State UP.
King, Shannon. 2024. The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York. UNC Press.
Krinks, Andrew. 2024. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. New York: NYU Press.
Kumar, Radha. 2021. Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975. Cornel UP.
Kurwa, Rahim. 2025. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lebron, Marisol. 2019. Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. NYU Press.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives:State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing.
Moore, Leonard N. 2010. Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. 2019. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard University Press.
Neidermeyer, Silvan. 2021, The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955. University of North Carolina Press.
Rios, Jodi. 2020. Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis. Cornell University Press.
Rios, Victor. 2011. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. NYU Press.
Schneider, Cathy Lisa. 2014. Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Suddler, Carl. 2019. Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York. NYU Press.
Sun, Ivan Y., and Yuning Wu. 2018. Race, Immigration, and Social Control: Immigrants’ Views on the Police. Springer.
Taylor, Flint. 2019. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago. Haymarket Books.
Wagner, Bryan. 2009. Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery. Harvard University Press.
Winston, Celeste. 2023. How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and World Beyond Police. Duke University Press.
Reform
Blaustein, J. 2015. Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Oxford University Press.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Brooks, Rosa. 2021. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City. Penguin.
Butler, Paul. 2017. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The New Press.
Cheng, Tony. 2023. The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input. University of Chicago Press.
Cohen, Ben. 2021. Above the Law: How “Qualified Immunity” Protects Violent Police. OR Books.
Couper, David. 2012. Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off about Protest, Racism, Corruption and the 7 Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police. David Couper.
Davis, Angela J. ed. 2017. Policing the Black Man. Pantheon.
Domanick, Joe. 2015. Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing. Simon and Schuster.
Gaskew, Tony. 2021. Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation. Rowman and Littlefield.Gilmore,
Hayes, Michael. 2023. The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and The Broken Promises of Police Reform. Kingston Imperial.
Horace, Matthew, 2018. The Black and The Blue. Hachet.
King, Shannon. 2024. The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York. UNC Press.
Muir, Mac and Greg Finch. 2025. Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. New York: Zando Books.
Oliver, Willard. 2017. August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.
Ramond, Edwin. 2023. An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. Viking.
Roach, Kent. 2022. Canadian Policing: Why and How It Should Change. Delve Books.
Schenwar, Maya and Victoria Law. 2020. Prison by any other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms.
Schwartz, Joanna. 2023. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable. Viking.
Sierra-Arevalo, Michael. 2024. The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of
Policing. Columbia University Press.
Simon, Samantha J. 2024. Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence. NYU Press.
Sparrow, Malcolm. 2016. Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform.
Brookings Institute.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
White, Michael D. and Aili Malm. 2020 Cops Cameras and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras. NYU Press.
Whitlock, Kay and Nancy Heitzeg. 2021. Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform. UC Press.
Winright, Tobias. 2020. Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing. Cascade.
Winston, Ali and Darwin Bondgraham. 2023. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. Simon and Schuster.
Schools
Baggett, Hannah. 2025. Beyond Bad Apples: Teacher Education for Police Free Schools. HarvardEducation Press.
Felker-Kantor, Max. 2024. DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools. University of North Carolina Press.
Fuentes, Annette. 2011. Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse. Verso.
Goyal, Nikhil. 2023. Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. Metropolitan Books.
Heitzig, Nancy. 2016. The School to Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline and Racialized Double Standards. Praeger.
Henning, Kristin. 2021. The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Pantheon.
Kupchik, Aaron. 2010. Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Era of Fear. New York University Press.
Kupchik, Aaron. 2016. The Real School Safety Problem: Long Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment. University of California Press.
Morris, Monique. 2018. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. The New Press.
Nolan, Kathleen. 2011. Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School. University of Minnesota Press.
Rios, Victor 2017. Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth. University of Chicago Press.
Shedd, Carla. 2015. Unequal city: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice. Russell Sage.
Sojoyner, Damien. 2016. First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press.
Suriel, Yalie, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Martin Dizon, and John J. Sloan eds. 2024. Copson Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence. University of Washington Press.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Sex Work
Barton, Bernadette, Barbara G. Brents and Angela Jones, eds. 2024. Sex Work Today: Erotic
Labor in the Twenty-First Century. New York: NYU Press.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Dewey, Susan and Tonia St. Germain. 2016. Women of the Streets; How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution. NYU Press.
Dewey, Susan and Patty Kelly, eds. 2011. Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective. NYU Press.
Fischer, Anne Gray. 2022. The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. UNC Press.
Grant, Melissa Gira. 2014. Playing the Whore. Verso.
Kempadoo, Kamal et al eds. 2012. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights. Paradigm.
Mgbako, Chi Adanna. 2016. To Live Freely in this World: Sex Worker Activism In Africa. NYU Press.
Musto, Jennifer. 2016. Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States. Univ. of California Press.
Schwarz, Corinne. 2023, Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State. Rutgers University Press.
Shih, Elena. 2023. Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue. University of California Press.
Showden, Carisa and Samantha Majic. Eds. 2014. Negotiating Sex Work; Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism. Minnesota.
Smith, Molly and Juno Mac. 2018. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights. Verso.
Thusi, I. India. 2022. Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johanesburg. Stanford University Press.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Weitzer, Ronald. 2012. Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business. NYU Press.
Sexuality
Hanhardt, Christina. 2013. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Duke University Press.
Lvovsky, Anna. 2021. Vice Patrol: Cops Courts and the Struggle Over Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago.
Russell, Emma K. 2021. Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing. Taylor & Francis Group.
Technology
Brayne, Sarah. 2020. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing. Oxford University Press.
Clarno, Andy, et al. 2024. Imperial Policing: Weaponizing Data in Carceral Chicago. University of Minnesota Press.
Ferguson, Andrew. 2017. The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. NYU Press.
Jefferson, Brian. 2020. Digitize and Punish: Racial Discrimination and the Digital Age. University of Minnesota Press.
Lokaneeta, Jinee, 2020. Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. University of Michigan Press.
Rocher, Paul. 2020. Gazer, Mutiler, Soumettre: Politique de l’arme non Letal. Paris: La Fabrique.
Stroud, Matt. 2019. Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High Tech Policing. Metropolitan.
Seo, Sarah A. 2019. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. Harvard Univ. Press.
Walker, Allyn and Aimee Wodda, eds. 2025. Abolition and Queer Justice. University of California
Press.
White, Michael D. and Aili Malm. 2020 Cops Cameras and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras. NYU Press.
Theory
Aliverti, Ana, et al., editors. 2023. Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. Oxford University Press.
Camp, Jordan and Christina Heatherton. 2016. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso.
Correia, David, 2021. Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police. Haymarket Books.
Dubber, Markus Dirk. 2005. The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government. Columbia UP.
Duff, Koshka ed. 2021. Abolish the Police. Dog Press.
Garland, David. 2025. Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment. Princeton University Press.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2022. Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.
Krinks, Andrew. 2024. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. New York: NYU Press.
Maher, Geo. 2022. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Verso.
Linnemann, Travis. 2022. The Horror of Police. Minnesota.
Maguire, Mark and Setha Low. 2024. Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Murakawa, Naomi. 2014. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press.
Neocleous, Mark. 2000, 2021. A Critical Theory of Police Power. Verso.
Neocleous, Mark. 2014. War Power, Police Power. Edinburgh UP.
Rigakos, George, John McMullan, Joshua Johnson and Gulden Ozcan. 2009. A General police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment. Red Quill Books.
Siegel, Micol, 2018. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke.
Wilson, Christopher. 2000. Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America. University of Chicago Press.
Traffic
Baumgartner, Frank, Derek Epp and Kelsey Shoub. 2018. Suspect Citizen: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race. Cambridge University Press.
Epp, Charles, Steven Maynard-Moody and Donald Haider-Karkel. 2014. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. University of Chicago Press.
Seo, Sarah A. 2019. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. Harvard Univ. Press.
Livingston, Julie and Andrew Ross. 2022. Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality. OR Books.
Transformative Justice
Dixon, Ejeris and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. 2020. Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. AK Press.
Gray-Garcia, Tiny, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Jeremy Miller, Joey Villareal, Muteado Silencio, Aunty Frances Moore, and all POOR Magazine Family. 2020. How to Not Call the Po’lice Ever. Poor Magazine.
Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This Till We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice. Haymarket
UK
Brogden, M. and Ellison, G. 2013. Policing in an Age of Austerity: A Postcolonial Perspective. Routledge.
Day, Aviah Sarah and Shanice Octavia McBean. 2022. Abolition Revolution. Pluto Press.
Davanna, Tracey and Federica Rossi eds. 2025. Policing in Crisis?: Policing and Resistance in 21st Century Britain. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Duff, Koshka ed. 2021. Abolishing the Police. Dog Press.
Elliott-Cooper, Adam. 2021 Black Resistance to British Policing. Manchester University Press.
Evans, Rob and Paul Lewis. 2014. Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police. Guardian Faber Publishing.
Fatsis, Lambros and Melayna Lamb, 2022. Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order. Policy Press.
Go, Julian. 2023 Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press.
Hall, Nathan et al. eds. 2009. Policing and the Legacy of Lawrence. Willan.
Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts. 1979, 2017. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Neocleous, Mark. 2000, 2021. A Critical Theory of Police Power. Verso.
Neocleous, Mark. 2014. War Power, Police Power. Edinburgh UP.
Schlembach, Raphael. 2024. Spycops: Secrets and Disclosure on the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Policy Press.
Urban
Agee, Christopher. 2014. The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950 -1970. University of Chicago Press.
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2018. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. University of Minnesota Press.
Aspholm, Roberto R. 2020. Views from the Streets: The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago’s South Side. New York: Columbia University Press.
Beckett, Katherine and Steve Herbert. 2011. Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America. Oxford.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Brooks, Rosa. 2021. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City. Penguin.
Coburn, Jason and DeVone Boggan. 2025. Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence
Through the Power of Redemptive Love. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Dale, Elizabeth. 2016. Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871–1971. Northern Illinois University Press.
Domanick, Joe. 2015. Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing. Simon and Schuster.
Donaldson, Greg. 1993. The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America. Anchor Books.
Fassin, Didier. 2013. Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing. Polity. [France].
Fassin, Didier, Frederic Debomy, and Jake Raynal. 2023. Policing the City; An Ethno-Graphic. Other Press. [France].
Fischer, Anne Gray. 2022. The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. UNC Press.
Garcia, Sergio Garcia, Ignacio Mendiola, Debora Avila, Laurant Bonelli, Jose Angel Brandariz, Cristina Fernandez Bessa, and Manuel Maroto Calatayud. 2021. Metropolis: Seguridad y Policia en la Ciudad Neoliberal. [Spain].
Gascon, Luis Daniel and Aaron Roussell. 2019. The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles. NYU Press.
Gibson, Kristina. 2011. Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets. NYU Press.
Gordon, Daanika. 2022. Policing the Racial Divide: Urban POlitics and the Remaking of Segregation. NYU Press.
Haldipur, Jan. 2019. No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing. NYU Press.
Herbert, Steve. 1996. Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department. U of Minnesota Press.
Herbert, Steve. 2009. Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community Policing. University of Chicago Press.
Hills, Alice. 2009. Policing Post-Conflict Cities. Zed Books.
Holloway, Thomas. 1993. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th Century City. Stanford UP.
Karmen, Andrew. 2000. New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crme Crash of the 1990s.
King, Shannon. 2024. The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York. UNC Press.
Lane, Roger. 1977. Policing the City: Boston, 1822-1885. Athenium.
Lebron, Marisol. 2019. Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. NYU Press.
Lugalia-Hollon, Ryan and Daniel Cooper. 2018. The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City. Beacon Press.
Lvovsky, Anna. 2021. Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago.
McQuade, Brendan. 2019. Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. University of California Press.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. 2019. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard University Press.
Muller, Markus-Michael. 2016. The Punitive City: Privatized Policing in Neoliberal Mexico. Zed Books.
Muñiz, Ana. 2015. Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries. Rutgers University Press.
Payne, Yasser Arafat, Brooklyn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers. 2023. Murder Town, USA:
Homicide, Violence, and Activism in Wilmington. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press.
Peršak, Nina. and Anna Di Ronco. eds. 2021. Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility. Routledge.
Rubenstein, Jonathan. 1980. City Police. Hill and Wang.
Samara, Tony Roshan. 2011. Cape Town After Apartheid; Crime and Governance in the Divided City. Minnesota UP.
Schneider, Cathy Lisa. 2014. Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Sharkey, Patrick. 2018. Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, THe Renewal of City Life, and The Next War on Violence. Norton.
Stuart, Forrest. 2018. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row.
University of Chicago Press.
Sylvestre, Marie Eve, Blomley, Nicholas, & Bellot, Celine. 2020. Red Zones: Criminal law and the territorial governance of marginalized people. Cambridge University Press.
Vaz, Matthew. 2020. Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling. University of Chicago Press.
Waseem, Zoha. 2022. Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi. Oxford.
Way, Lori Beth and Ryan Patten, 2013. Hunting for “Dirtbags” Why Cops Over-Police the Poor and Racial Minorities. Northeastern University Press.
Williams, Kristian. 2026. Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, From Settlement to Uprising. Chico, CA: AK Press.
Wolcott, David B. 2005. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Yonucu, Deniz. 2022. Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Turkey. Cornell University Press.
Violence
Abt, Thomas. 2019. Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a
Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets. Basic Books.
Coburn, Jason and DeVone Boggan. 2025. Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence
Through the Power of Redemptive Love. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Currie, Elliott. 2020. A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America. Metropolitan Books.
Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This Till We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice. Haymarket.
Payne, Yasser Arafat, Brooklyn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers. 2023. Murder Town, USA:
Homicide, Violence, and Activism in Wilmington. New Brunswick,; Rutgers University
Press.
Purnell, Derecka. 2021. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom. Astra House.
Sharkey, Patrick. 2018. Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, The Renewal of City Life, and The Next War on Violence. Norton.
Vitale, Alex S. 2021. The End of Policing. Verso.
Youth
Agyepong, Tera. 2018. The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945. University of North Carolina Press.
Brooks, Emily. 2023. Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City. University of North Carolina Press.
Brotherton, David C. 2015. Youth Street Gangs: A Critical Appraisal. Routledge.
Currie, Elliot. 1991. Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth. Pantheon.
Donaldson, Greg. 1993. The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America. Anchor Books.
Gibson, Kristina. 2011. Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets. NYU Press.
Henning, Kristin. 2021. The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Pantheon.
Myers, Tamara Gene. 2019. Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press.
Payne, Yasser Arafat, Brooklyn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers. 2023. Murder Town, USA:
Homicide, Violence, and Activism in Wilmington. New Brunswick,; Rutgers University
Press.
Rios, Victor. 2011. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. NYU Press.
Rios, Victor. 2017. Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth. University of Chicago Press.
Suddler, Carl. 2019. Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York. NYU Press.
Wolcott, David B. 2005. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
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