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Bezig met laden... In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safetydoor Lenore Anderson
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"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The author clearly and evenhandedly explains how our recent system of mass incarceration developed, how that system does not, in fact, make our communities safer, and what steps we can take to actually improve public safety.
One theme that really stood out for me is the idea that "hurt people hurt people"--in other words, there are not two separate classes of "victims" and "criminals" but instead these categories largely overlap. People who are victims may turn to crime, and people who engage in criminal activity may become victims. The true path to public safety is to end this cycle and to get victims the help they need. ( )