Policing in the United States: essential reading

• Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces (Public Affairs, 2013).
• Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men (The New Press, 2017).
• Camp, Jordan T. and Christina Heatherton, eds. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).
• Cobbina, Jennifer E. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter… (New York University Press, 2019).
• Davis, Angela J., ed. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Pantheon Books, 2017).
• Greenberg, David F., ed. Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology (Temple University Press, updated ed., 1993).
• Harring, Sydney L. Policing a Class Society (Haymarket Books, 2^nd, 2017).
• Muñiz, Ana. Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
• Nelson, Jill, ed. Police Brutality: An Anthology (W.W. Norton & Co., 2000).
• Pegues, Jeff. Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America (Prometheus Books, 2017).
• Rios, Victor M. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New York University Press, 2011).
• Schenwar, Maya, Joe Macaré, and Alan Yu-lan Price, eds. Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2016).
• Taylor, Flint. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago (Haymarket Books, 2019).
• Vitale, Alex S. The End of Policing (Verso, 2017).
• Williams, Kristian. Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (AK Press, revised ed., 2015).