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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the Undercover Police by Donna McLean
    Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the Undercover Police - by Donna McLean

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529379877 | ISBN 10: 1529379873

    "You live with someone for two years and then... they simply don’t exist."  Over 40 years, two British police units acted undercover to infiltrate activist groups. At least 20 of those officers deliberately targeted women and entered relationsh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
    Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest - by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone

    £18.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839762499 | ISBN 10: 1839762497

    An urgent investigation into modern British policing.  The UK government’s efforts to suppress dissent in the pursuit of greater power have given a green light to police to apply more aggressive tactics in managing crowds and protests. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton
    We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City - by Justin Fenton

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571356621 | ISBN 10: 0571356621

    The astonishing true story of ‘one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation’ (New York Times)  Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, By the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa and Naomi
    Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, By the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth - by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa and Naomi

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529108316 | ISBN 10: 1529108314

    Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted.  They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them.  These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner - someone who shared their values, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State by Rizwaan Sabir
    The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State - by Rizwaan Sabir

    £18.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745338484 | ISBN 10: 0745338488

    What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author's experiences to take the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices and the polic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forced Out: A Detective
    Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience - by Kevin Maxwell

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781846276811 | ISBN 10: 1846276810

    Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force – he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a workin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Resistance to British Policing by Adam Elliott-Cooper
    Black Resistance to British Policing - by Adam Elliott-Cooper

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526143938 | ISBN 10: 1526143933

    As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible.  Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal - ar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
    The End of Policing - by Alex S. Vitale

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784782924 | ISBN 10: 1784782920

    The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself.   Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve polic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism by Noel A. Cazenave
    Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism - by Noel A. Cazenave

    £27.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781138549937 | ISBN 10: 1138549932

    Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall
    Police: A Field Guide - by David Correia and Tyler Wall

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786630148 | ISBN 10: 1786630141

    Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement.   It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain compliance or rough ride.   Police: A Field Guide is an illu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
    Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color - by Andrea J. Ritchie

    £17.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807088982 | ISBN 10: 0807088986

    A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.   Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trial Of Patrolman Thomas Shea: The True Account of a Police Murder of an Innocent Black Child by Thomas Hauser
    The Trial Of Patrolman Thomas Shea: The True Account of a Police Murder of an Innocent Black Child - by Thomas Hauser

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609807313 | ISBN 10: 1609807316

    The true story behind Audre Lorde’s 1975 poem “Power” — a masterly, gripping and true account of the tragedy of the early-morning shooting of a child and the trial of a policeman for murder that followed. Was it a case of mistaken identity or ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden
    Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown - by Lezley McSpadden

    £20.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781942872528 | ISBN 10: 1942872526

    The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden — the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 — sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (Editors)
    Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter - by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783167 | ISBN 10: 1784783161

    "A major work... I couldnt think of a more compelling and timely work such as this."(Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism by Cindy Milstein (Editor)
    Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism - by Cindy Milstein (Editor)

    £9.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352321 | ISBN 10: 1849352321

    The lines of oppression are already drawn. The only question is, which side are you on in the struggle against the violence that is white supremacy and policing?   Taking Sides supplies an ethical compass and militant map of the terrain, argu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams
    Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America - by Kristian Williams

    £17.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849352154 | ISBN 10: 1849352151

    Freddie Gray. Walter Scott. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Akai Gurley. Azelle Rodney. Rekia Boyd. Mark Duggan. Ian Tomlinson. Oscar Grant. Jean Charles de Menezes. Dannette Daniels. Blair Peach. Harry Stanley. Kevin Gately. This heart-wrenc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rough Justice by Roger Williams
    Rough Justice - by Roger Williams

    £24.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909976184 | ISBN 10: 1909976180

    Rough Justice recounts the experiences of victims of police and criminal justice failings through the stories of some who fought back, often with amazing commitment and courage. Their feelings encompass frustration, confusion, helplessness and anger. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Undercover: The True Story of Britain
    Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police - by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783350346 | ISBN 10: 1783350342

    The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists by Eveline Lubbers
    Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists - by Eveline Lubbers

    £26.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745331850 | ISBN 10: 0745331858

    The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool by John E. Archer
    The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool - by John E. Archer

    £10.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316838 | ISBN 10: 1846316839

    Liverpool gained a unique and notorious reputation during the 19th century for being an abnormally violent and criminal place. The Monster Evil intends to explore the historical foundations of this stigmatization: were the fears real or an invention ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by David Mayberry
    Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - by David Mayberry

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190095 | ISBN 10: 1906190097

    This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.   Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlight ... more

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