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It was discussed as a book that highlighted the failures of the criminal justice system regarding public safety and racial disparities, and explored counterproductive policies.
She's also the author of the new book, Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration.
— Episode: Crime & Politics (with Rachel Barkow)
Episode: Crime & Politics (with Rachel Barkow)
It was discussed as a book that highlighted the failures of the criminal justice system regarding public safety and racial disparities, and explored counterproductive policies.
She's also the author of the new book, Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration.
Congratulations on your book, Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. It's a great book. It's an important book. I'm glad you wrote it.
And so my goal in writing the book was to highlight all the things we're doing that fail in that objective, that I think people have intuitions that these things work when in fact you look at the data and the evidence and you find we're doing a lot of things that are counterproductive.
And to boot, those are the same things that create racial disparities, a lot of human misery, and make the system palpably unjust.
So it's kind of this lose-lose environment that I wanted to draw people's attention to.