In their names the untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety

"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 anx...

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Main Author: Anderson, Lenore (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2022.
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505 0 0 |g Part I :  |t A Marriage of Convenience --  |t A traumatized nation --  |t How the call for victims' rights led to mass incarceration --  |g Part II :  |t The Hierarchy of Harm --  |t Victims seen and unseen --  |t A tale of two cities --  |t Good victims, bad victims --  |g Part III :  |t Poisonous Priorities --  |t Up is down and down is up --  |t The public safety myth --  |g Part IV :  |t Hurt People and Healed People --  |t The cycle of trauma --  |t The trauma of the justice system --  |g Part V :  |t A New Safety Movement --  |t A new victims' right : trauma recovery for all --  |t A new lens : crime survivors speak --  |t A new investment : scaling safety --  |t A new justice : stopping the cycle of trauma and poverty --  |g Conclusion :  |t A shared safety. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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