In their names : the untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety
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Published
New York, NY : The New Press, 2022.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781620977125, 1620977125
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
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Published
New York, NY : The New Press, 2022.
Language
English
ISBN
9781620977125, 1620977125
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands of new tough-on-crime policies and billions of new dollars pumped into "justice," Aswad never received victim compensation, support, or even basic levels of concern. In the name of victims, justice bureaucracies ballooned while most victims remained on their own. In In Their Names, Lenore Anderson, president of one of the nation's largest reform advocacy organizations, offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long- standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. She argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime. A solutions-oriented, paradigm-shifting book, In Their Names argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and crime survivors"--,Provided by publisher.
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Denville Library - Adult Nonfiction | 364.089 AND | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Anderson, L. (2022). In their names: the untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety . The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Anderson, Lenore. 2022. In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety. The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Anderson, Lenore. In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety The New Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Anderson, Lenore. In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety The New Press, 2022.
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