Description
| Product ID: | 9780226826233 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Chicago Visions and Revisions |
| Title: | Everyone against Us |
| Subtitle: | Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice |
| Authors: | Author: Allen Goodman |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, History of the Americas, Legal history, Local history, History of the Americas, Legal history, Local history, North Central & Mid-West states |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-24 |
