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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Author / Creator:	Anderson, Lenore, author.
Imprint:	New York : The New Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	340 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States. Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States. Murder victims -- United States. Murder victims' families -- United States. Racism -- United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration. Murder victims. Murder victims' families. Race relations. Racial profiling in law enforcement. Racism. United States -- Race relations. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12783672

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ISBN:	9781620977125 1620977125 9781620977767
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of Contents:

Part I. A Marriage of Convenience
1. A Traumatized Nation
2. How the Call for Victims' Rights Led to Mass Incarceration
Part II. The Hierarchy of Harm
3. Victims Seen and Unseen
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Good Victims, Bad Victims
Part III. Poisonous Priorities
6. Up Is Down and Down Is Up
7. The Public Safety Myth
Part IV. Hurt People and Healed People
8. The Cycle of Trauma
9. The Trauma of the Justice System
Part V. A New Safety Movement
10. A New Victims' Right: Trauma Recovery for All
11. A New Lens: Crime Survivors Speak
12. A New Investment: Scaling Safety
13. A New Justice: Stopping the Cycle of Trauma and Poverty
Conclusion: A Shared Safety
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index