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What I really want to get at is the fact that "government" is not an all-or-nothing deal. There are many actions and interactions that are heavily influenced by the superstition of "government", and there are plenty more that are relatively untouched by that superstition. When you look at a map created by someone who believes in nation-states, it will look like it's all-government, but that image is an illusion that is part-and-parcel of the superstition. By talking about "the territory controlled by governments", you're still seeing like a state.

Once you start seeing "government" as a mental phenomenon rather than a geographical phenomenon, the false reality of the nation-state map fades away. You start seeing things in terms of Jeffrey Tuckerisms, where the simple act of pouring milk into your cereal bowl is a beautiful act of anarchy, despite it happening within a region painted all one color on the map.

The best place to start is MnC or Free Markets & Capitalism?.

For additional reading, I would suggest Studies in Mutualist Political Economy and Organization Theory by Kevin Carson, Anarchy and Legal Order by Gary Chartier, Community Technology and Neighborhood Power: The New Localism by Karl Hess, and National Economic Planning: What Is Left? by Don Lavoie.

For some more classic texts, I would recommend What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren, The Science of Society by Stephen Pearl Andrews, Mutual Banking by William B. Greene, Poverty and Progress by Henry George (non-anarchist), and Instead of a Book, By a Man Too Busy to Write One by Benjamin R. Tucker.

You might find Hayek or Milton Friedman congenial. They were typically more focused on consequences as well, yet they certainly saw a need for some government. Or almost any non-ancap economist, really; you could start with Robert Frank's latest book.

In philosophy, you could go the minarchist route with Robert Nozick.

I'm a regular visitor to r/Anarcho_Capitalism and I wouldn't say I'm completely against the idea of prisons (there may be reasons for serial killers, for example, to be locked up). However after reading Clarance Darrow's Resist Not Evil, I've come to regard prisons as an ineffective and even unethical way to deal with most crime. Darrow presents a persuasive case for the idea that crime is in large part a symptom of poverty and that prisons are both abusive and counterproductive toward the end of eradicating poverty and crime. The general attitude that I've seen among Anarcho Capitalists (and I would agree) is that law should focus on enforcing restitution for rights violations rather than punishment.