I asked Twitter where to get started if I wanted to learn about policing. Here’s what y’all said, with citations. Thank you.
What are your favorite texts about the history of police and policing?
— Hannah Alpert-Abrams (@hralperta) February 28, 2019
Last updated 3/30/2020. Add a book to the bibliography.
Bibliography
- Subini Ancy Annamma, The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus. Routledge, 2018. ht @KStackWhitney
- Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ht @mfkantor
- Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Penguin Random House, 2009. ht @KempoJesse
- Laila Caimari, While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón. University of California Press, 2016. ht @HealeyParera
- Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton, eds. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso Books, 2016.
- Pepe Ceballos, La Policia Maldita: El servicio secreto en Guadalajara. Archivo Municipal. ht @benjamintsmith7
- David Correia and Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide. Verso Books, 2018. anonymous.
- Daniel J. Czitrom, New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. Oxford University Press, 2016. ht @nasrat
- Max Felker-Kantor, Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ht @stschrader1
- Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford University Press, 2016. ht @stschrader1
- José González G. Lo negro del Negro Durazo. México, D.F.: Editorial Posada, 1983. ht @benjamintsmith7
- Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 1997. ht @KempoJesse
- Max Hering, 1892, Un año insignificante: Desorden social y orden policial en la Bogotá de fin de siglo. Critica/Universidad Nacional, Bogotá 2018. ht @stefaniagallini
- Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ht @nasrat
- Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).
- Joy James, ed. Warfare in the American Homeland. Duke University Press, 2007. ht @KempoJesse
- Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City. Verso, 2003.
- Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. University of California Press, 2019. ht @stschrader1
- Adam Malka, The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ht @avitale.
- Mark Neocleous, The fabrication of social order : a critical theory of police power. London: Pluto Press, 2000. ht @avitale
- Pablo Piccato, A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. ht @ThomasRathUCL
- Pablo Piccato, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. ht @ThomasRathUCL
- Laurence Ralph, The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Stuart Schrader, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press, 2019. ht @anthrobrarian
- Micol Seigel, Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police. Duke University Press, 2018. ht @avitale
- Carl Suddler, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York. New York University Press, 2019. ht @mfkantor
- Clarence Taylor, Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. New York University Press, 2018.
- Alex Vitale, The End of Policing. Verso Books, 2017. ht @KempoJesse
- Bryan Wagner, Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery. Harvard University Press, 2009. ht @KempoJesse
- Frederic Wakeman Jr., Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. University of California Press, 1996. ht @tomsojka
- Kristian Williams, Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. AK Press, 2015. ht @avitale
Other sources
- Jedlitschka, Karsten. “The Lives of Others: East German State Security Service’s Archival Legacy.” The American Archivist 75, no. 1 (2012): 81-108. ht @amaliasl