Gideon's Promise - A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice
epub | 1.36 MB | English | Author :Jonathan Rapping | 2020 | Beacon Press

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A blueprint for criminal justice reform that puts a new generation of public defenders front and center in the fight for legal equality
Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping reveals the pervasive issues inherent in our current system of public defense, and lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.
Public defenders represent over eighty percent of those who interact with the court system, a disproportionate number of whom are poor, non-white citizens who rely on them to navigate the law on their behalf. More often than not, even the most well-meaning of those defenders are over-worked, under-funded, and incentivized to put the interests of judges and politicians above those of their clients in a culture that beats the passion out of talented, driven advocates, and has led to an...

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