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Longtime criminal justice worker Zehr became a creative exponent of restorative justice, which focuses first on crime victims and their self-defined needs and second on bringing offenders to understand and take responsibility for the harm they have done, after concluding that current U.S. criminal justice systems ignored victims. This book of testimonies and photographs of some direct victims of crime and many spouses, parents, children, and siblings of victims responds primarily to the prime focus of restorative justice, though the secondary focus comes up in the statements of several persons who have met or want to meet their or their loved ones' attackers. Zehr says he hasn't editorially skewed the depositions, and apart from lacking verbal tics and bad spoken grammar, they ring utterly true. Most subjects report how crucial their religious faith was to dealing successfully with the rage, despair, and brokenness that engulfed them, and many remark how poorly the courts, in particular, served them. Moving and awe-inspiring, this is very high-order advocacy literature. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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• Are victims of crime destined to have the rest of their lives shaped by the crimes they’ve experienced? (“What happened to the road map for living the rest of my life?” asks a woman whose mother was murdered.)
Longtime criminal justice worker Zehr became a creative exponent of restorative justice, which focuses first on crime victims and their self-defined needs and second on bringing offenders to understand and take responsibility for the harm they have done, after concluding that current U.S. criminal justice systems ignored victims. This book of testimonies and photographs of some direct victims of crime and many spouses, parents, children, and siblings of victims responds primarily to the prime focus of restorative justice, though the secondary focus comes up in the statements of several persons who have met or want to meet their or their loved ones' attackers. Zehr says he hasn't editorially skewed the depositions, and apart from lacking verbal tics and bad spoken grammar, they ring utterly true. Most subjects report how crucial their religious faith was to dealing successfully with the rage, despair, and brokenness that engulfed them, and many remark how poorly the courts, in particular, served them. Moving and awe-inspiring, this is very high-order advocacy literature. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
• Are victims of crime destined to have the rest of their lives shaped by the crimes they’ve experienced? (“What happened to the road map for living the rest of my life?” asks a woman whose mother was murdered.)
• Will victims of crime always be bystanders in the justice system? (“We’re having a problem forgiving the judge and the system,” says the father of a young man killed in prison.)
• Is it possible for anyone to transcend such a comprehensively destructive, identity-altering occurrence? (“I thought, I’m going to run until I’m not angry anymore,” expresses a woman who was assaulted.) Howard Zehr presents the portraits and the courageous stories of 39 victims of violent crime in Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims. Many of these people were twice-wounded: once at the hands of an assailant; the second time by the courts, where there is no legal provision for a victim’s participation. “My hope,” says Zehr, “is that this book might hand down a rope to others who have experienced such tragedies and traumas, and that it might allow all who read it to live on the healing edge.”
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