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In Their Names

The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

by Lenore Anderson
Misty Monroe
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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 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.

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  • Release date

    August 29, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9798350803952
      • File size: 312223 KB
      • Duration: 10:50:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 31, 2022
      Anderson, the founder of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, debuts with a passionate and provocative indictment of how the victims’ rights movement has warped the American justice system. Contending that victims’ rights laws are a product of political expediency and opportunism, not sound policy, Anderson claims that they’ve contributed to mass incarceration by encouraging courts and prosecutors to value punishment over rehabilitation and police departments to “pay more attention to drug possessors than to rape survivors in communities of color.” She credibly debunks public safety “myths” foundational to the victims’ rights moment, including the notions that putting more people in prison translates into less crime and that “tough drug sentencing” is an effective deterrent. Her suggestions for reform include legislation to provide funds for victims as well as inmate rehabilitation programs, the implementation of community-based public safety initiatives, and more mental health resources. Throughout, Anderson documents harrowing miscarriages of justice and expresses heartfelt compassion for victims, inmates, and their families. The result is a lucid road map for a more humane criminal justice system.

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