Zusatztext Praise for Until We Reckon : One of Mashable's 17 books every activist should read in 2019 One of 13 Books to Wake Up Your Book Club" selected by Kirkus Reviews Profoundly necessary. Michelle Alexander! New York Times columnist and author of The New Jim Crow A must-read for anyone who works in the criminal courts! the many who care about making our streets and communities safer and all those who espouse concern for the simple concept of justice. New York Law Journal In her first book! the founder of Brooklyn-based Common Justice convincingly attacks the conventional wisdom about violent crimes! appropriate punishment! and how to repair the criminal (in)justice system. . . . The author provides clear! specific evidence for her contention that the new conventional wisdom must be survivor-centered! accountability-based! safety-driven! and racially equitable. The case studies of restorative justice that punctuate every chapter offer undeniable proof that Common Justice's tactics are succeeding and should be more widely applied. A top-notch entry into the burgeoning incarceration debate. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [Sered's] ideas! and her practical experience with the Brooklyn-based group Common Justice! struck me as both totally sensible and totally revolutionary. Tom Jackman! The Washington Post The work [Sered is doing] is truly impressive and innovative. . . . [It] encompasses two seemingly contradictory threadsone is diverting violent criminals from the prison system! and the other is helping victims heal. I found it completely! radically original and generally fascinating. . . . Truly remarkable work. Scott Stossel! The Atlantic Recently! a loose network of gun-crime victims! as well as men and women who've survived sexual assault! violent robberies! and other violations of the social contract . . . have emerged with an alternative policy vision. Among its many champions is Danielle Sered [who leads] pioneering efforts to provide community-based support to young men of color who've been harmed by violence . . . and those responsible for crimes. Sarah Stillman! The New Yorker Danielle Sered provocatively offers and backs up a vision that actually promotes real healing for crime survivors and improves community safety. A must-read for anyone who truly wants to dismantle mass incarceration. Nick Turner! president! Vera Institute of Justice A pioneer in restorative justice. NPR Sered issue[s] a clarion call to take [violent crime] seriously and handle it with nuance. Sered reminds us that! if we're serious about reducing mass incarceration! we need to grapple seriously! and safely! with people who have committed violent offenses and the survivors of their crimes. HuffPost Informationen zum Autor Danielle Sered leads the award-winning Brooklyn-based Common Justice, which develops and advances solutions to violence that meet the needs of those harmed and advance racial equity without relying on incarceration. Klappentext Acknowledged field leader of newly emerging field: Sered, in New York, and Lenore Anderson in California (also under contract to TNP), are the movement leaders in the current effort to find more humane and effective ways to deal with violent crime. Sered has been profiled in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/black-wounds-matter, appeared at the Aspen Ideas conference, and has been featured on...

Praise for Until We Reckon:
One of Mashable's “17 books every activist should read in 2019” *One of “13 Books to Wake Up Your Book Club" selected by *Kirkus Reviews
“Profoundly necessary.”
—Michelle Alexander, New York Times columnist and author of The New Jim Crow “A must-read for anyone who works in the criminal courts, the many who care about making our streets and communities safer and all those who espouse concern for the simple concept of justice.”—New York Law Journal “In her first book, the founder of Brooklyn-based Common Justice convincingly attacks the conventional wisdom about violent crimes, appropriate punishment, and how to repair the criminal (in)justice system. . . . The author provides clear, specific evidence for her contention that the new conventional wisdom must be survivor-centered, accountability-based, safety-driven, and racially equitable. The case studies of restorative justice that punctuate every chapter offer undeniable proof that Common Justice's tactics are succeeding and should be more widely applied. A top-notch entry into the burgeoning incarceration debate.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[Sered’s] ideas, and her practical experience with the Brooklyn-based group Common Justice, struck me as both totally sensible and totally revolutionary.”
—Tom Jackman, The Washington Post

“The work [Sered is doing] is truly impressive and innovative. . . . [It] encompasses two seemingly contradictory threads—one is diverting violent criminals from the prison system, and the other is helping victims heal. I found it completely, radically original and generally fascinating. . . . Truly remarkable work.”
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic

“Recently, a loose network of gun-crime victims, as well as men and women who’ve survived sexual assault, violent robberies, and other violations of the social contract . . . have emerged with an alternative policy vision. Among its many champions is Danielle Sered [who leads] pioneering efforts to provide community-based support to young men of color who’ve been harmed by violence . . . and those responsible for crimes.”
—Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker

“Danielle Sered provocatively offers and backs up a vision that actually promotes real healing for crime survivors and improves community safety. A must-read for anyone who truly wants to dismantle mass incarceration.”
—Nick Turner, president, Vera Institute of Justice

“A pioneer in restorative justice.”
—NPR

“Sered issue[s] a clarion call to take [violent crime] seriously and handle it with nuance. Sered reminds us that, if we’re serious about reducing mass incarceration, we need to grapple seriously, and safely, with people who have committed violent offenses and the survivors of their crimes.”
—HuffPost

Autorentext
Danielle Sered leads the award-winning Brooklyn-based Common Justice, which develops and advances solutions to violence that meet the needs of those harmed and advance racial equity without relying on incarceration.

Klappentext

The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolition

A National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoree 
 A Kirkus “Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobia” 
 Winner of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice Journalism Award 
 Finalist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice 
 In a book Democracy Now! calls a “complete overhaul of the way we’ve been taught to think about crime, punishment, and justice,” Danielle Sered, the executive director of Common Justice and renowned expert on violence, offers pragmatic solutions that take the place of prison, meeting the needs of survivors and creating pathways for people who have committed violence to repair harm. Critically, Sered argues that reckoning is owed not only on the part of individuals who have caused viol…