Resources

Fact Finding Report on Police Encounters in Western UP

A Report by Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture

The Siege of Aligarh Muslim University: How the UP Police Reduced a University to a Battleground – A Fact-Finding Report

A Report by Karwan-E-Mohabbat (KEM), India Cultural Forum with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Resistance & Protest

Rohingya Refugees Fact Finding Report of Delhi and Haryana Camps

A Report by Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) with a focus on India from 2018

Themes:

  • Refugees & Migration

The Night of the Broken Glass: Testimonies from Jamia Milia Islamia

A Report by Campaign Against Witch-hunt of Anti-CAA Activists with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Resistance & Protest

Compilation of pre-2005 Documents on Human Rights Violations in India by Civil and Democratic Rights Organizations

A Website by Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH), University of Pune with a focus on India from 2005

Themes:

  • Caste
  • Conflict & Militarisation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Labour & Class
  • Legal Processes
  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Religious Minorities
  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Unafraid: The Day Young Women Took the Battle to the Streets|Women’s Testimonies from Ground Zero at Jamia Millia Islamia University

A Report by Independent Women's Initiative with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Resistance & Protest

Targeted Violence in Jamia: NFIW Fact-Finding Report on the Events of 10 February, 2020

A Report by National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Resistance & Protest

Protests Against Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 & The Unleashing of State Terror in AMU

A Report by Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Students Union with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Resistance & Protest

Countermapping Pandemic Policing: A Study of Sanctioned Violence in Madhya Pradesh

A Report by Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPAProject) with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • COVID-19
  • Police Brutality & Torture

The Terror of POTA and Other Security Legislation: Report on People’s Tribunal

A Report by Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), People's Watch with a focus on India from 2004

Themes:

  • Terrorism & Security

Coerced Movements and the Unravelling of a ‘People’

An Academic Article by Sudeep Basu, Sarasis Majumdar with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Refugees & Migration

Disintegration at Gunpoint: Kashmir Reading Room Yearly Report 2019-20

A Report by Kashmir Reading Room with a focus on Kashmir from 2020

Themes:

  • Conflict & Militarisation
  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Legal Processes

Zulm, Zakhm, Azaadi: Women’s Voices of Resistance in Kashmir

A Report by Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression with a focus on Kashmir from 2020

Themes:

  • Conflict & Militarisation
  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Legal Processes
  • Police Brutality & Torture

Untold Prison Stories: An Evening with GN Saibaba

A Video by ANN 24/7 with a focus on India from 2016

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Prisons

Zameer Ke Bandi/Prisoners of Conscience

A Documentary by Anand Patwardhan with a focus on India from 1978

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners

Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons

A Book by Banu Bargu with a focus on Turkey from 2016

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners

Rehearsed Truths: Eight Successive Bans on SIMI By UAPA Tribunals

A Report by People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Religious Minorities
  • Terrorism & Security

Human Rights Violations Against the Transgender Community: A Study of Kothi and Hijra Sex Workers in Bangalore, India

A Report by People's Union for Civil Liberties- Karnataka (PUCL) with a focus on India from 2003

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Legal Processes
  • Police Brutality & Torture

COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth: Ensuring an Effective Response

A Report by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative with a focus on Commonwealth Countries from 2020

Themes:

  • COVID-19
  • Prisons

Imprisoned Resistance: 5th August and Its Aftermath

A Report by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) with a focus on Kashmir from 2019

Themes:

  • Conflict & Militarisation
  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Legal Processes
  • Resistance & Protest

Imprisoned and Unsafe: Prisoners and the Pandemic

A Report by People's Union for Civil Liberties- Maharashtra (PUCL) with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • COVID-19
  • Prisons

Status of Policing in India Report 2019: Police Adequacy and Working Conditions

A Report by Lokniti-CSDS, Common Cause with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Crime & Criminality
  • Legal Processes

Targeted Violence in Jamia: NFIW Fact-Finding Report Into the Events of 10 February 2020

A Report by National Federation of Indian Women with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Religious Minorities
  • Resistance & Protest

Amnesty International India Investigative Briefing into Delhi Riots 2020

A Report by Amnesty International with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Religious Minorities

“Treated Worse Than Animals”: Abuses against Women and Girls with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in Institutions in India

A Report by Human Rights Watch with a focus on India from 2014

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Gender & Sexuality

The “Anti-Nationals” Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Terrorism Suspects in India

A Report by Human Rights Watch with a focus on India from 2011

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Police Brutality & Torture

Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab

A Report by Human Rights Watch with a focus on India from 2007

Themes:

  • Conflict & Militarisation
  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Legal Processes
  • Police Brutality & Torture

Global Prison Trends 2020

A Report by Penal Reform International from 2020

Themes:

  • Prisons

Death Penalty Sentencing In Trial Courts

A Report by Project 39A with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

A re-analysis of the case of murder of Hetal Parekh

An Article by Debasis Sengupta, Probal Chaudhuri with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Rationing Sex: Female Convicts in the Andamans

An Academic Article by Satradu Sen with a focus on India from 1998

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality

Prison as Factory: A study of jail manufacturers in the Madras Presidency

An Academic Article by Padmini Swaminathan with a focus on India from 1995

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Labour & Class
  • Prisons

Gender, Nationalism and the Colonial Jail: A study of women Activists in Uttar Pradesh

An Academic Article by Suruchi Thapar-Bjo?rkert with a focus on India from 1998

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Prisons

Disciplining natives: Prisons and prisoners in early nineteenth century India

An Academic Article by Anand Yang with a focus on India from 1998

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Prisons

The Death of Us

A Documentary by Vani Subramaniam with a focus on India from 2018

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Press Conference on Death Penalty & Sexual Violence

An Event by Nikita Viswanath, Kavita Krishnan, Enakshi Ganguly, Vani Subramaniam, Tara Narula, Sudeeti with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Women in Resistance, Women in Prison: A Public Hearing in Delhi

An Event by All India Union of Forest Working People, Delhi Solidarity Group with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Prisons

The Right to Remain Silent

An Essay by Sara Novic with a focus on USA from 2017

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Prisons

The Draconian Ban on Prison Voting

An Op-Ed by Chintan Chandrachud with a focus on India from 2015

Themes:

  • Prisons

On Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment

A Book by Talal Asad from 1996

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture

Making People Illegal

A Book by Catherine DuVerne from 2008

Themes:

  • Refugees & Migration

Philosophy of Prison and Punishment

A Video by Prof. Vijay Raghavan with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Prisons

Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report 2019

A Report by Project 39A with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Abolition of the Death Penalty: A Tough Road Ahead for India

An Article by Anup Surendranath with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Mental Illness, Sentencing and the Death Penalty

An Article by Maitreyi Misra, Neetika Vishwanath with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Legal Processes

Proof of Guilt

A Blog by Abhinav Sekhri with a focus on India from 2018

Themes:

  • Crime & Criminality
  • Legal Processes

Re-imaginging Bail Decision Making in India

A Report by CLPR with a focus on India from 2020

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

India Justice Report

A Report by Tata Trusts with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Pre-trial Detention in South Asia

A Report by Vrinda Bhandari with a focus on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh from 2014

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Bail Decision Making and Pre-trial Detention: Surfacing Judicial Policy

An Article by John S. Goldkamp with a focus on US from 1979

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Justice Under-trial

A Report by Amnesty International with a focus on India from 2018

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Amendments to Criminal Procedure Code – Report 268

A Report by Law Commission of India with a focus on India from 2017

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Congestion of Undertrial Prisoners in Jails – Report 78

A Report by Law Commission of India with a focus on India from 1979

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Prison Reforms

A Website by Ministry of Home Affairs with a focus on India

Themes:

  • Prisons

State of Human Rights in the Prisons of Maharashtra

A Report by Arun Ferreira with a focus on India from 2010

Themes:

  • Prisons

A Critical Appraisal of the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010

An Academic Article by Arun Ferreira with a focus on India from 2010

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture

Prison Reform in Nineteenth- Century British-India

A Thesis by Joannah Clark with a focus on India from 2015

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Prisons

Depicting Conflict in India in 1857-8: The Instabilities of Gender, Violence, and Colonialism

An Academic Article by Joanna de Groot with a focus on India from 2017

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality

Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America

A Book by Frank Dikotter, Ian Brown from 2007

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Prisons

Crime Through Time

A Book by Anupama Rao, Saurabh Dube with a focus on India from 2014

Themes:

  • Caste
  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Religious Minorities

Discipline and Punish

A Book by Michel Foucault with a focus on France from 1979

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Prisons

Crime in the Social Order of Colonial North India

An Academic Article by Sandria B. Freitag with a focus on India from 1991

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality

Importing Gendered Legal Reasoning from England: Wife Murders in Early Colonial India, 1805-1857

An Academic Article by Daniel J.R. Grey with a focus on UK, India from 2017

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality

Gender, Prisons and Prison History

An Academic Article by Nicole Hahn-Rafter with a focus on USA from 1985

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Prisons

Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantanamo

An Academic Article by Nasser Hussain with a focus on USA from 2007

Themes:

  • Police Brutality & Torture
  • Prisons

Hyperlegality

An Academic Article by Nasser Hussain with a focus on UK from 2007

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation

Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law

A Book by Elizabeth Kolsky with a focus on India from 2010

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality

The Rule of Colonial Indifference: Rape on Trial in Early Colonial India 1805-57

An Academic Article by Elizabeth Kolsky with a focus on India from 2010

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality

Crime, Gender, & Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions

An Academic Article by Louis A. Knafla with a focus on Europe from 2002

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality

Historical Geographies of Prison: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past

A Book by Karen M. Morin, Dominique Moran (eds.) from 2015

Themes:

  • Prisons

Disciplining and policing the ‘criminals by birth’, Part I: the making of a colonial sterotype – the criminal tribes and castes of North India

An Academic Article by Sanjay Nigam with a focus on India from 1990

Themes:

  • Caste
  • Colonialism & Occupation

Enforcing Gender: The Constitution of Sex and Gender in Prison Regimes

An Academic Article by Sarah Pemberton with a focus on USA, UK from 2013

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality

Report of the India Committee on Prison Discipline

A Report by Law Commission of India with a focus on India from 1838

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Prisons

The Female Jails of Colonial India

An Academic Article by Satadru Sen with a focus on India from 2002

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Prisons

Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands

A Book by Satadru Sen with a focus on India from 2000

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality

A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Colonial India

A Book by Radhika Singha with a focus on India from 1998

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality

The Death Of Us

A Documentary by Vani Subramaniam with a focus on India from 2018

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

The Drowned and the Saved

A Non-fiction by Primo Levi with a focus on Italy from 1988

Themes:

  • Refugees & Migration

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

A Journal by N/A with a focus on USA

Themes:

  • Prisons

The Marshall Project

A Website by N/A with a focus on USA

Themes:

  • Prisons

The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India (in Subaltern Studies Reader VIII)

An Academic Article by David Arnold with a focus on India from 1994

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation

Crime and Courts in England, 1660-1800

A Book by J.M. Beattie with a focus on UK from 1986

Themes:

  • Prisons

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

A Book by Ruth Gilmore with a focus on USA from 2007

Themes:

  • Labour & Class
  • Prisons

The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-Prison Nexus.

A Book by Subini Annamma with a focus on USA from 2017

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Race
  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration.

A Book by Jerry Flores with a focus on USA from 2016

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Prisons
  • Surveillance
  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Issues and Challenges in the rehabilitation of children rescued from prostitution in Deonar Special Home, Mumbai

A Thesis by Tanvi Ahuja with a focus on India from 2013

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Labour & Class
  • Shelter & Rehabilitation
  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

A Book by Erving Goffman with a focus on N/A from 1961

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Shelter & Rehabilitation

Criminals in Our Land! Border Movement and Apprehension of Children from Bangladesh Within the Juvenile Justice System in India.

A Book Chapter by Chandni Basu with a focus on Bangladesh from 2014

Themes:

  • Crime & Criminality
  • Refugees & Migration
  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Prison Worlds : An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

A Book by Didier Fassin with a focus on France from 2016

Themes:

  • Prisons

Pitted against each other: cases of sexual offence within the Juvenile Justice System in India.

A Book Chapter by Chandni Basu with a focus on India from 2013

Themes:

  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

The Juvenile Justice System in India, From Welfare to Rights.

A Book by Ved Kumari with a focus on India from 2004

Themes:

  • Youth & Juvenile Justice

Solitary Confinement : Social Death and its afterlives

A Book by Lisa Guenther with a focus on USA from 2013

Themes:

  • Legal Processes

Colours of the Cage

A Memoir by Arun Ferreira with a focus on India from 2021

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Prisons

Black Warrant : Confessions of a Tihar Jailer

A Memoir by Sunil Gupta, Sunetra Chaudhury with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Legal Processes
  • Prisons

Are Prisons Obsolete?

A Book by Angela Davis with a focus on USA from 2003

Themes:

  • Alternatives & Futures
  • Race

A Widening of the Net of Social Control? Gender-Specific Treatment for Young Women in the US Juvenile Justice System.

An Academic Article by Sara Goodkind, Diane Miller with a focus on USA from 2006

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality

Total Confinement : Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison

A Book by Lorna Rhodes with a focus on USA from 2004

Themes:

  • Disability & Mental Illness
  • Prisons

Queer Teens and Legislative Bullies: The Cruel and Invidious Discrimination Behind Heterosexist Statutory Rape Laws

An Academic Article by Michael Higdon with a focus on usa from 2008

Themes:

  • Gender & Sexuality

The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and survival under the Raj

An Academic Article by Padma Anagol with a focus on India from 2002

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Crime & Criminality
  • Gender & Sexuality

Forced Passages Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime

A Book by Dylan Rodrigues with a focus on USA from 2006

Themes:

  • Dissent & Political Prisoners
  • Prisons

Prison Diaries

A Documentary by Uma Chakravarti with a focus on India from 2019

Themes:

  • Prisons

Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

A Book by Clare Anderson with a focus on India from 2004

Themes:

  • Colonialism & Occupation
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Resistance & Protest