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S4EP10 The Deserving: Elizabeth Vartkessian on Mercy, Mitigation, and Second Chances
Context means everything. In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with Elizabeth Vartkessian, author of terrific book The Deserving and founder of Advancing Real Change, about the power of mitigation evidence to reveal the life experiences and contexts in which people cause serious harm. They explore how childhood trauma, poverty, violence, and systemic failures shape lives, and what
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“Therein lies part of the problem as well. Good guys versus bad guys. It's a false dichotomy, a two-dimensional cartoon rather than a multidimensional, full-blown portrayal of actual people. Constructs like these minimize the humanity of the people being prosecuted. Criminal defendants become a parade of disposable people who are somehow less than human and not worthy of careful, sometimes agonizing consideration of the possibility that somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong.”
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened