{"product_id":"progressive-prosecution-race-and-reform-in-criminal-justice-hardback-9781479809950","title":"Progressive Prosecution; Race and Reform in Criminal Justice (Hardback) 9781479809950","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProgressive Prosecution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and Reform in Criminal Justice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKim Taylor-Thompson (Edited by), Anthony C. Thompson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479809950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"My approach as District Attorney has been to improve public safety and strengthen community trust by shrinking the footprint of the justice system and promoting fairness, racial equity, and humanity. \u003ci\u003eProgressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a wide breadth of theoretical and practical advice to help replicate this vision, and identifies central elements that guide our movement, including juvenile justice, data-driven policies, and equal representation. It should be considered required reading not just for prosecutors, but for anyone who's involved in or cares about the American legal system.\" - Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez \"Featuring an all-star cast of expert contributors, \u003ci\u003eProgressive Prosecution\u003c\/i\u003e offers tremendous guidance to prosecutors who seek to make progressive reforms, both at the abstract level of vision and at the more concrete level of practical steps. This impressive volume will surely make a substantial contribution to the field.\" - Carol Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School \"This important and timely work, expertly compiled by truly informed advocates, is rich with insight, innovation, and guidance. A must read for anyone interested in improving the fairness and reliability of the justice system.\" - Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative \"\u003ci\u003eProgressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice \u003c\/i\u003eacts as both a call to action and a practical guide, instructing prosecutors on what they need to do to bring about lasting and meaningful change.\" (Library Bookwatch) \"In short, Race and Reform is brimming with ideas that could be, and in some locales already have been, incorporated into a substantive vision for prosecutorial reform.\" (Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books) \"Contributors, which include practicing US district attorneys and scholars, draw from empirical evidence and years of experience to argue that change must happen at the local level; prosecutors need to adopt race-conscious approaches, actively focusing on the ways in which race misshapes perceptions of criminality, influences discretionary calls, affects jury selection, and induces a reliance on punitive responses.\" (Law \u0026amp; Social Inquiry)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides compelling and manageable solutions for how to reform the criminal justice system from the inside out \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A racial reckoning in the US criminal justice system was long overdue well before the highly publicized murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in 2020. \u003ci\u003eProgressive Prosecution \u003c\/i\u003eargues that prosecutors, having helped build our failed system of mass incarceration, must now lead the charge to dismantle it.\u003cbr\u003e With contributions from practicing district attorneys as well as leading scholars in the fields of law and criminal justice, Taylor-Thompson and Thompson's volume offers an unapologetically ambitious vision for reform. The contributors draw from empirical evidence and years of combined research experience to argue that change must happen at the local level, with prosecutors choosing to adopt race-conscious approaches. These prosecutors must do the hard work themselves, actively focusing on the ways that race misshapes perceptions of criminality, influences discretionary calls, affects how we select juries, and induces a reliance on punitive responses. \u003ci\u003eProgressive Prosecution\u003c\/i\u003e acts as both a call to action and a practical guide, instructing prosecutors on what they need to do to bring about lasting and meaningful change.\u003ci\u003e Progressive Prosecution \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent work of scholarship, a must-read for anyone committed to racial equity and meaningful criminal justice reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591062581528,"sku":"9781479809950","price":31.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/progressive-prosecution-race-and-reform-in-criminal-justice-hardback-9781479809950","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}