In Their Names

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

De: Lenore Anderson

Narrado por: Misty Monroe

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.

©2022 Lenore Anderson (P)2023 Tantor

hurt people hurt people

it brought to light for me an understanding that many of the Soultions that we have been given for violence prevention and safety actually deepened the issues we are trying to solve. i also really appreciated the simplicity of understanding that hurt people hurt people and healed people heal people. transformational book.