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Rethinking Justice
Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform
Vincenzo Guido
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Rethinking Justice
Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform
Vincenzo Guido
About This Book
In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: good guys and bad guys. Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as good guys. Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good.
Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding the entire system accountable and changing the way we handle crime in America.
- Explore how a prevailing philosophy of retributive over restorative justice has contributed to mass incarceration.
- Discover what happens when civil servants go beyond filling prisons to address systemic injustices.
- Meet Portsmouth Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales, whose investment in crime prevention, community building, and restorative justice could provide a model for widespread reform.
Through stories and insights from district attorneys, legal scholars, and survivors of a perilously flawed system, Rethinking Justice imagines the tough-on-crime D.A. role recast as a "progressive prosecutor." Is this political paradox even possible?
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Table of contents
- DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
- Introduction
- Chapter I: How We Got Here
- Chapter II Is Reform Possible?
- Chapter III: One Grain of Sand Versus the Whole Beach
- Chapter IV: Starting at Home: Progressive Prosecution and Community Engagement
- Chapter V: Petty Crime and Second Chances
- Chapter VI: âNewâ Justice in the City of Brotherly Love
- Chapter VII: Revisiting the Ghosts of the Past: Brooklyn and an Appeal to Mercy
- Chapter VIII: Perhaps There Is Another Way? Prosecution and Diversion
- Chapter IX: Does Any of This Actually Work?
- Chapter X: Addressing the Elephant in the Room: What Do We Do with the âOthersâ?
- Chapter XI: Looking Across the Atlantic
- Chapter XII: The Long Road Ahead
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments