Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

31 reviews

emilywasbored's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Police brutality

jessereadsthings's review

informative fast-paced

4.0

An interesting and well written introduction to the prison industrial complex and prison abolition. Definitely recommend reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

Moderate: Police brutality

headachesince03's review

challenging dark informative inspiring

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Murder, Sexual assault, Torture, Gun violence, Rape, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Confinement, Drug use, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, and Violence

zombiezami's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

Foundational text is foundational 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Misogyny, Death, Police brutality, Violence, Slavery, Torture, Confinement, Sexism, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Rape, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, and Addiction

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o_w_e_n's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

A really useful and informative introduction to prison abolition. Davis' writing style is dense, but understandable - in less than 200 pages, she managed to convey dozens of complex ideas clearly and concisely. She has thought deeply about how the prison industrial complex interacts with a wide variety of identities, which gives the book a revolutionary and intersectional tenor that made me forget several times that she wrote this in 2003. It is still very relevant and much worth reading today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Violence, Confinement, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Ableism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Islamophobia, War, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Transphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Alcohol

booksbeyondthebinary's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Police brutality, Violence, and Slavery

novella42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Death, Deportation, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, and Murder

jessthanthree's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Murder, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deportation

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexism, Medical content, and Rape

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use