Name: Everyone Against us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
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Author: Goodman, Allen
ISBN: 9780226826233

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Everyone Against us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice (Chicago Visions and Revisions)

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Physical Book

Author

Allen Goodman

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780226826233

Edition No.

Synopsis "Everyone Against us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice (Chicago Visions and Revisions) "

A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America's criminal justice system. As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friends every day: How could he work to help criminals? How could he live with himself? Presumed guilty by association, Goodman quickly learned that people didn't really want an answer; they wanted a justification, perhaps even an apology. Ever the idealist, Goodman answered anyway: Everyone deserves justice. Everyone against Us is Goodman's testimony of his life as a public defender. In it, he documents his efforts to defend clients, both guilty and innocent, against routine police abuse, prosecutorial misconduct, and unjust sentencing. To work in criminal justice, Goodman shows, is to confront and combat vivid human suffering, of both victims and perpetrators. From sex trafficking, murder, and abuse to false conviction, torture, and systemic racism, Goodman describes the daily experiences that both rattled his worldview and motivated him to work ever harder. Part memoir, part exposé, Everyone against Us is the moving story of an embattled civil servant who staves off the worst abuses of the criminal justice system, at great personal cost.

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