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The Department of Criminal Justice Studies Resource Guide to understanding the relationship of criminal justice to racial domination and other resources Book Recommendations The Condemnation of The End of Policing Are Prisons The Alchemy of Race Blackness (2019) e-Book (2018) Obsolete? (2003) and Rights (1991) Khalil G Muhammad Alex Vitale Patricia Williams Angela Y Davis The idea of black criminality was This book attempts to spark crucial to the making of modern public discussion by revealing Dr. Williiams, a professor of Political activist, professor, urban America. Chronicling the the tainted origins of modern of commercial law, is the feminist writer, a pivitol work on emergence of deeply embedded policing as a tool of social control. great-great-granddaughter of racism and sexism foundation notions of black people as a It shows how the expansion of a slave and a white southern within the U.S. prison system. lawyer. This book is an eloquent dangerous race of criminals by police authority is inconsistent explicit contrast to working-class with community empowerment, autobiographical essay in Between the World whites and European immigrants, social justice—even public which the author reflects on the and Me (2015) Muhammad reveals the influence safety. The e-book is currently intersection of race, gender, and Ta-Nehisi Coates class. such ideas have had on urban available online for free. An extremely compelling development and social policies. Emergent Strategy: Ando sangrando! personal narrative on Shaping Change, (I am bleeding): institutionalized racism in Critical Race Theory Changing Worlds A study of Mexican America. Framed by police (2017) (2017) American-police killings of Black people, it is one Richard Delgado and Adrienne Maree Brown conflict & an analysis of the most important pieces of Jean Stefancic of the East L.A. 1970 riots. Inspired by Octavia Butler's contemporary literature. One of the foundational texts of A. Morales explorations of our human Critical Race Theory (CRT). Written relationship to change, “Emergent This unique book about the Character and Cops in relatively accessible language it Strategy” is radical self-help, Mexican-American “barrio” (6th Edition) explains Critical Race Theory for a society-help, and planet-help depicts the relationship between Edwin J Delattre general audience. the barrio and the traditional designed to shape the futures we law enforcement system (police, want to live. Chapters 6- Public Corruption for Dark Matters: courts, and corrections. (This title Profit, 7- Authority and Reform On the Surveillance is available in some libraries) Ethical Dilemmas and in Controlling Corruption, and of Blackness (2015) Decisions in Criminal Chapter 12 -Tragedy and “Noble Simone Brown Justice (2019) And We are Not Cause” Corruption are all quite In Chapter One, Simone Brown Joycelyn M. Pollock Saved (1989) good in describing what needs examines and critiques Foucault's Derrick Bell to be changed in the culture. “Discipline and Punish” and the Chapters 5, 6 and 7 in particular Chapter 6 is especially good in widely adopted panopticon address police corruption, causes, One of the most powerful identifying the “Rotten Apples” theory as failing to account for and responses such as Noble critical thinkers on racism in the among police groups that need the experience of Black people cause corruption, rotten apple American legal system, Bell puts to be weeded out to keep from visa-via a carceral state. corruption, the cop code, PTSD, the American legal system on trial affecting others around them. rotten barrel corruption, early and come to the verdict that it is warning systems, ethical training, inextricably racist. etc. 2 Race and Crime: The Fire Next Governing Through Our Enemies in Blue: Time (1963) Crime (2007) Police and Power in Geographies of James Baldwin Jonathon Simon America (2015) Injustice (2018) Kristian Williams Elizabeth Brown and The first essay "My Dungeon Mr. Simon shows how a racialized In this revised and updated George Barganier Shook- A Letter to my Nephew" discourse on crime since the edition of his seminal study of Two of our very own Criminal absolutely speaks to this moment Omnibus Crime Control Act policing in the United States, Justice Studies professors we are living in right now. One of 1968 has badly distorted Williams shows that police reviews the history of race and of the prolific writers of his time, American policy priorities. brutality isn't an anomaly, but is criminology and explores the Mr. Baldwin’s work continues to built into the very meaning of law impact of racist colonial legacies inspire generations including the enforcement in America. on the organization of criminal writer Ta-Nahesi Coates. Baldwin's Have Black Lives Ever justice institutions. Matter? (2017) words are as cogent, painful Policing America’s Mumia Abu-Jamal and powerful as ever, and as Empire: The United necessary. In “Have Black Lives Ever States, the Philippines Ten years that Shook Mattered?”, Abu-Jamal gives voice and the Rise of the the City: San Freedom is a Constant to the many people of color who Surveillance State Francisco 1968-1978 Struggle: Ferguson, have fallen to police bullets or (2009) J.M. Ferreira Palestine and the racist abuse, and offers the post- A.W. McCoy Recomended Read from the Foundations of a Ferguson generation advice on McCoy shows how United States book: “With the Soul of a Human Movement (2016) how to address police abuse in survelliance systems set up in the Rainbow”: Los Siete, Black Angela Y. Davis the United States. Phillipines in the 1950s migrated Panthers, and Third Worldism in from the Phillipines to the United In these newly collected essays, San Francisco, (pp. 30–47). States. interviews, and speeches, The New Jim Crow world-renowned activist and (2010) scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates The Rooster’s Egg Michelle Alexander Policing the Black (1995) the connections between Man (2018) “The New Jim Crow” is a stunning Patricia Williams struggles against state violence Angela J. Davis, account of the rebirth of a caste- and oppression throughout Bryan Stevenson, et al. history and around the world. like system in the United States, A brilliant group of essays on one that has resulted in millions A comprehensive, readable race written with incredible of African Americans locked analysis of the key issues of the prose, Williams exposes the Golden Gulag (2007) Black Lives Matter movement, Ruth Wilson Gilmore behind bars and then relegated pervasiveness of racism on to a permanent second-class this thought-provoking and college campuses, in adoptive status. Ms. Alexander’s central compelling anthology features services, in law, etc., Williams essays by some of the nation’s While the crime rate has fallen, precept is that prisons picked up is unafraid to tackle even the most influential and respected the prision population has grown where slavery left off. toughest racial topics. criminal justice experts and legal exponetially. In “Golden Gulag”, scholars. Prof. Gilmore examines prisons as modern day plantations. 3 News Media Cops and No Counselors: The George Floyd Protests We Can’t Breathe: On How the Lack of School Won’t Stop Until Police Black Lives, White Artist/Author(s) Mental Health Staff is Brutality Does Lies, and the Art of The answer to police violence Harming Students The NYT Editorial Board Survival (2018) ACLU Editors is not ‘reform’. It’s defunding. This article examines the use of Jabari Asim Here’s why The role of police is schools has force and the militarization of “We Can’t Breathe” disrupts Alex Vitale been controversial. This article America’s police departments and what Toni Morrison has exposed Vitale argues for a better response argues against police in schools offers some reform ideas. as the “Master Narrative” and from police departments that and suggest that mental health counseling in schools could replaces it with a story of black goes beyond bias training, body How Police Unions Became survival and persistence. cameras, & community dialogues. replace the need for shool policing. Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts Breaking rank: A top cop’s Peer Reviewed Articles Noam Scheiber expose Do police officers make and Policy Statements C-SPAN and Norm Stamper schools safer or more This riveting article discusses the dangerous? lobby efforts by police unions Stamper discusses his book Addressing Law Enforcement Dana Goldstein within local and congressional “Breaking Rank” and th dark side Violence as a Public Health governments to block any kind of of American policing. The question of whether police Issue (2018) officers are needed in our schools real reforms. American Public Health Assoc. Broken Windows Policing the fight to remove them the Criminalizing Normal and Institutionalised focus of this article. The Impact of Broken Adolescent Behavior in Racism: An extract from Windows Communities of Color (2013) ‘Policing the Planet: Why Ending Secrecy on Police A very brief film that examines Kristin Henning the Policing Crisis Led to Misconduct the controversial broken windows A powerful and pragmatic look at #BlackLivesMatter The NYT Editorial Board theory. problems and solutions to racial Christina Heatherton J. Camp An article that focuses on the disparities in prosecuting youth. This article discusses the book secretive practices in policing, Indignities of Order Stop Law Enforcement “Policing the Planet” in which especially Section 50-a, a long- Maintenance Policing with Violence the excerpt explores the broken term New York law that seals Jeffrey Fagan windows theory and the impact it police conduct records. Editors of Incite.org Baruch College School of Public An article on how to stop violence has had on communities of color. Affairs with Jeffrey Fagan against people of color and the For Police Officers, Baruch College’s School of Public Call It What It Is: Anti- trans community. Demonstrations Take a Toll Affairs welcomed Jeffrey Fagan Blackness and Test Duty as the guest speaker of the Lillie TROOPS: Stand Down for kihana miraya ross Manny Fernandez and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Black Lives Here, Dr.