9 Books Debaters Should Read For The Criminal Justice Reform Topic

Bill Batterman shares a list of the very first 9 books he advises that debaters checked out for the 2020-2021 criminal justice reform subject.

This video starts by discussing why books are such a crucial resource when getting ready for a brand-new subject and how to discover the ideal books to check out. It then supplies a list of 9 recommended books for the criminal justice reform subject. Those books are:

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)
2. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (2017)
3. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa (2014)
4. Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis (2003)
5. Completion of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (2018)
6. Authorities: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall (2018)
7. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police by Micol Seigel (2018)
8. The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom by Alice Kim et al. (2018)
9. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk (2016)

If you have a recommendation for a book that was not consisted of on my list, please share it in the remarks listed below.

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