In their names : the untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety / Lenore Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ralston, Lenore, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Murder victims--United States.

Murder victims.

Murder victims' families.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : The New Press, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

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

About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781620977767

1620977761

OCLC:

1344539828