Everyone against Us
BUY / COMPRA:
Everyone against Us
Public Defenders and
the Making of
American Justice
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226826233
Fecha de Publicación:
2023 April
Precio: $25.00
Breve Descripción
Desde el tráfico sexual, el asesinato y el abuso hasta las falsas condenas, la tortura y el racismo sistémico, Goodman describe las experiencias diarias que sacudieron su visión del mundo y lo motivaron a trabajar cada vez más. En parte memorias, en parte exposición, Everyone against Us es la conmovedora historia de un funcionario asediado que evita los peores abusos del sistema de justicia penal, a un gran costo personal.
Breve descrição
De tráfico sexual, assassinato e abuso a falsas condenações, tortura e racismo sistêmico, Goodman descreve as experiências diárias que abalaram sua visão de mundo e o motivaram a trabalhar cada vez mais. Parte livro de memórias, parte exposição, Todos contra nós é a história comovente de um funcionário público sitiado que impede os piores abusos do sistema de justiça criminal, com grande custo pessoal.
Full description
A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system.
As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friends every day: How could he work to help criminals? How could he live with himself? Presumed guilty by association, Goodman quickly learned that people didn’t really want an answer; they wanted a justification, perhaps even an apology. Ever the idealist, Goodman answered anyway: Everyone deserves justice.
Everyone against Us is Goodman’s testimony of his life as a public defender. In it, he documents his efforts to defend clients, both guilty and innocent, against routine police abuse, prosecutorial misconduct, and unjust sentencing. To work in criminal justice, Goodman shows, is to confront and combat vivid human suffering, of both victims and perpetrators. From sex trafficking, murder, and abuse to false conviction, torture, and systemic racism, Goodman describes the daily experiences that both rattled his worldview and motivated him to work ever harder. Part memoir, part exposé, Everyone against Us is the moving story of an embattled civil servant who staves off the worst abuses of the criminal justice system, at great personal cost.
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