| Global lockdown: Race, gender, and the prison-industrial complex J Sudbury Routledge, 2014 | 612 | 2014 |
| 'Other Kinds of Dreams': Black Women's Organisations and the Politics of Transformation J Sudbury Routledge, 2005 | 350 | 2005 |
| Outsiders within: Writing on transracial adoption JJ Trenka, JC Oparah, SY Shin U of Minnesota Press, 2021 | 328 | 2021 |
| Celling black bodies: Black women in the global prison industrial complex J Sudbury Feminist review 80 (1), 162-179, 2005 | 259 | 2005 |
| Activist scholarship: Antiracism, feminism, and social change J Sudbury, M Okazawa-Rey Routledge, 2015 | 176 | 2015 |
| Birthing justice JC Oparah, A Bonaparte Taylor & Francis, 2015 | 106 | 2015 |
| Colonial systems of control: Criminal justice in Nigeria V Saleh-Hanna University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2008 | 106 | 2008 |
| A world without prisons: Resisting militarism, globalized punishment, and empire J Sudbury Social Justice 31 (1/2 (95-96), 9-30, 2004 | 101 | 2004 |
| Introduction: Feminist critiques, transnational landscapes, abolitionist visions J Sudbury Global lockdown: Race, gender, and the prison-industrial complex, xi-xxviii, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Feminism and the (trans) gender entrapment of gender nonconforming prisoners JC Oparah UCLA Women's LJ 18, 239, 2010 | 80 | 2010 |
| (Re) constructing multiracial blackness: womens activism, difference and collective identity in Britain J Sudbury Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 (1), 29-49, 2001 | 71 | 2001 |
| Battling over birth: Black women and the maternal health care crisis JC Oparah, H Arega, D Hudson, L Jones, OBWB Justice, T Oseguera Praeclarus Press, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| “Mules,”“yardies,” and other folk devils: mapping cross-border imprisonment in Britain J Sudbury Global Lockdown, 167-183, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
| Maroon abolitionists: Black gender-oppressed activists in the anti-prison movement in the US and Canada J Sudbury Meridians 9 (1), 1-29, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Transatlantic visions: resisting the globalization of mass incarceration J Sudbury Social Justice 27 (3 (81), 133-149, 2000 | 44 | 2000 |
| Introduction: Activist scholarship and the neoliberal university after 9/11 J Sudbury, M Okazawa-Rey Activist Scholarship, 1-14, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Rethinking antiviolence strategies: Lessons from the Black women's movement in Britain J Sudbury na, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Unpacking the crisis J Sudbury Interrupted life: Experiences of incarcerated women in the US, 11-25, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Creativity, resilience and resistance: black Birthworkers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic JC Oparah, JE James, D Barnett, LM Jones, D Melbourne, S Peprah, ... Frontiers in Sociology 6, 636029, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Women of color, globalization, and the politics of incarceration J Sudbury Barbara Price and Natalie Sokoloff, 54-62, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
