To Build a Better Criminal Justice System: 25 Experts Envision the Next 25 Years of Reform
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
May. 24, 2012
ANNOTATION: It is hoped that this volume sparks a conversation regarding the adoption of a “strategy that emphasizes opportunity rather than punishment as the guiding theme of our vision for public safety … [these essays] are broad-ranging both in vision and strategy. They contain the perspectives of leading thinkers in the field … [who] look to a day where public safety is not premised in maintaining a world-record level of incarceration. But there is a diversity of views on how we might get to that point” (p. 2). Some of the topics discussed are: harnessing science and passion; the human rights paradigm; ending mass incarceration ends; a frank national conversation about race; public health as a model for effective change; ending the war against children; the problem with gender-neutral reform; the promise of evidence-based solutions; moving beyond reentry mania; surrendering the war on drugs; and the transformative power of a free press.
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