Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“jocelyn simonson”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jocelyn simonson”
Skip side bar filters
  • Radical Acts of Justice

    How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration

    Shortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookAn original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions together—written by a leading authority on bail reform and social movementsFrom reading books on mass incarceration, one might conclude that the way out of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Acts of Justice

    How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration

    Shortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookAn original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions together—written by a leading authority on bail reform and social movementsFrom reading books on mass incarceration, one might conclude that the way out of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The End of Policing

    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Invisible Chains

    Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

    Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.The global problem of human ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Locking Up Our Own

    Crime and Punishment in Black America

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardLos Angeles Times Book Prizes FinalistNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year"A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." —Trevor Noah, The Daily ShowF... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nobody

    Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceNautilus Award Winner“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —*The New York Times***From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Invisible No More

    Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

    “A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowInvisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The War on Cops

    How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

    Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

    Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

    Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?This collection of reports and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Prisons Make Us Safer"

    And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

    by Victoria Law ...
    Series Book 9 - Myths Made in America
    An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners—a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sexual Justice

    Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash

    A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due processOver the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Enemies in Blue

    Police and Power in America

    Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.Using media reports alone, the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus