AMST 1040: Incarcerating the Crisis

Further resources for locating primary and secondary scholarship on policing and incarceration:

• Vani Natarajan’s 2014 Barnard Library Guide on Researching the Prison Industrial Complex
• The PIC Is… site from the Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective collocates resources, including reports, on Chicago-area policing and incarceration trends.
• Prison Culture: How the PIC Structures Our World is a blog that attempts "to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society." The blog includes further readings prison industrial complex, as well as links to visualizations (including maps) about incarceration.
• The John Jay College Library's Guide on Researching NYC Jails and Prisons, Guide on NYC Criminal Courts, and Guide on Researching the NYPD are all very helpful for NY-area research.
• Harvard Law School Library research guide on Criminal Justice Resources
• The Duke Carceral Studies Network hosts resources for those seeking to teach or learn about prisons, policing, and the carceral state.
• This mini-zine (which you can print out) shares a non-exhaustive list of jail closures in NYC.