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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New York :
The New Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : A Marriage of Convenience
- A traumatized nation
- How the call for victims' rights led to mass incarceration
- Part II : The Hierarchy of Harm
- Victims seen and unseen
- A tale of two cities
- Good victims, bad victims
- Part III : Poisonous Priorities
- Up is down and down is up
- The public safety myth
- Part IV : Hurt People and Healed People
- The cycle of trauma
- The trauma of the justice system
- Part V : A New Safety Movement
- A new victims' right : trauma recovery for all
- A new lens : crime survivors speak
- A new investment : scaling safety
- A new justice : stopping the cycle of trauma and poverty
- Conclusion : A shared safety.
