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Children's Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman praised the book saying: Harris speaks from experience to debunk myths and offer real solutions to many of the problems with [our] current criminal justice system. Her suggestions have the potential to change and save lives. [3]
The center has also published the books Daring to Fail: First-Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform, [38] A Problem-Solving Revolution: Making Change Happen in State Courts, [39] Documenting Results: Research on Problem-Solving Justice, [40] and Personal Stories: Narratives from Across New York State. [41]
The book is loosely structured to follow the life of a criminal case from magistrates' court, through to sentence and appeal.It mixes first-hand accounts of the author as advocate, acting at different times for the prosecution and the defence, with a discussion of how the system in practice fails to deliver justice on a daily basis: "Access to justice, the rule of law, fairness to defendants ...
Problem-oriented policing (POP), coined by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Herman Goldstein, is a policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective response strategies. POP requires police to identify and target underlying problems that can lead to ...
The book is being used in law schools and public policy schools, due in part to a law school course on problem-solving justice that the Center piloted at Fordham Law School. [8] [9] The National Association of Drug Court Professionals had more than 25,000 members working in 2,663 drug courts and 1,219 other problem-solving courts as of late ...
The book illustrates how these problems have led to wrongful convictions in cases taken up the by Ohio Innocence Project. [ 5 ] Godsey writes that judges, prosecutors, and police contribute to wrongful convictions by taking "unreasonable and intellectually dishonest positions" [ 4 ] and that they operate "under a bureaucratic fog of denial". [ 3 ]
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
The book was praised for its "trove of compelling observations, anecdotes, and conjectures," [1] for its "nearly encyclopedic" coverage of private techniques in criminal justice, and for elevating the discussion of criminal justice to a higher philosophical plane by redirecting the reader's attention away from social engineering goals like deterrence and rehabilitation toward a focus on ...