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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

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ISBN10: 1620977125
ISBN13: 9781620977125
Publisher: New Pr
Published: Nov 1 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims' rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head of Alliance for Safety and Justice

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.

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