5 must-read law books like Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered

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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

By: Danielle Sered

4.46

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa…

"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

If you liked the law plot in Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform

By: None , John F. Pfaff

4.07

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

"A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is prob… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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2. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook

3. Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

By: Cameron McWhirter

3.65

Format: 432 pages,

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, b… read more

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4. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

By: Dorothy Roberts

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race,… read more

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5. Little Book of Restorative Justice: A Bestselling Book By One Of The Founders Of The Movement

By: Howard Zehr

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vengeance and bitter violence have had their turns -- without redemptive results. How should we as … read more

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6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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7. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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8. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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9. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

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  • race
  • history
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  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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10. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

By: Harsha Walia

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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11. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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12. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By: Maya Schenwar

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more

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  • race
  • history
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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."

-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"

-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"

-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"

-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

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13. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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14. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

By: Shane Bauer

4.23

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more

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  • race
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  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"

-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"

-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

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15. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

By: Alec Karakatsanis

4.39

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more

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  • race
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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by Mark Godsey

16. Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

By: Mark Godsey

4.40

Format: 264 pages, ebook

Awarded Digital Book World's Best Book Published by a University Press In this unprecedented view… read more

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  • law
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  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

By: Danielle Sered

4.46

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa… read more

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  • race
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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."

-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

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18. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

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  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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19. The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence

By: Judith Levine

3.71

Format: 199 pages, ebook

With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two pr… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education: Fostering Responsibility, Healing, and Hope in Schools (Justice and Peacebuilding) by Katherine Evans

20. Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education: Fostering Responsibility, Healing, and Hope in Schools (Justice and Peacebuilding)

By: Katherine Evans

4.09

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A handbook for teachers and administrators on creating just and equitable learning environments for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law

21. "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

By: Victoria Law

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the p… read more

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  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
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11 must-read audiobook books like Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered

Transform Your Habits

Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform

None , John F. Pfaff

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

4.22

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14 Best audiobook books like Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by Mark Godsey

Transform Your Habits

I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan

Katie Porter

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

Jeff Guinn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Flirtation or Faceoff (D.C. Eagles Hockey, #2)

Leah Brunner

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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