{"product_id":"in-their-names-lenore-anderson-9781620977125","title":"In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Their Names\u003c\/em\u003e busts open the public safety myth that uses victims' rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head of Alliance for Safety and Justice \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIn Their Names\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 trauma, which is a leading \u003cem\u003ecause\u003c\/em\u003e of subsequent violent crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA solutions-oriented, paradigm-shifting book, \u003cem\u003eIn Their Names\u003c\/em\u003e argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and crime survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620977125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620977125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/31\/2022","brand":"Lenore Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44067839279359,"sku":"9781620977125","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6ef8489-cb15-4f80-b917-cc94d80fb652.jpg?v=1685415641","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-their-names-lenore-anderson-9781620977125","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}