Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western

Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice
Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western
Page: 240
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ISBN: 9781620977552
Publisher: New Press, The
Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice

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How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors

“An extraordinary and long overdue collection offering myriad ways that we can and must completely overhaul the way we imagine as well as implement ‘justice.’”
 —Heather Ann Thompson, historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water After decades of overpolicing and ever-more punitive criminal justice measures, the time has come for a new approach to violence and community safety. Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice brings together leading activists, legal practitioners, and researchers, many of them justice-involved, to envision a justice system that applies a less-is-more framework to achieve the goal of public safety. Grounded in a new social contract heralding safety not punishment, community power not state power, the book describes a paradigm shift where justice is provided not by police and prisons, but in healing from harm. A distinguished cast of contributors from the Square One Project at Columbia University’s Justice Lab shows that a parsimonious approach to punishment, alongside a reckoning with racism and affirming human dignity, would fundamentally change how we respond to harm. We would encourage mercy in the face of violence, replace police with community investment, address the trauma lying at the heart of mass incarceration, reduce pre-trial incarceration, close the democracy gap between community residents and government policymakers, and eliminate youth prisons, among other significant changes to justice policy.

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