Manifesting Justice (eBook)

Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

Valena Beety (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
320 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4153-2 (ISBN)

Infos

';Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.' Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on CrimeThrough the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbsa woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientationinnocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena Beety examines the failures in America's criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictionsparticularly with regards to women, the queer community, and people of color When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beety's client Leigh Stubbsa young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbs's harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system where defendantsincluding disproportionate numbers of women of color and queer individualsare convicted due to racism, prejudice, coerced confessions, and false identifications. Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety's own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that not only advocates for reforming the conviction processit will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free. With a Forewordby Koa Beck, author of White Feminism ';A shocking study of how the criminal justice system discriminates an invigorating and eye-opening call to action.' Publishers Weekly ';A thought-provoking book about the American justice system . . . Beety, an innocence litigator and former federal prosecutor, concludes her important book by proclaiming ';Let's manifest justice now!''Booklist

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2022
• Vorwort: Koa Beck
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: activism • addiction • American Criminal Justice System • Audre Lorde • black lives matte • brittany barnett • broken system • Bryan Stevenson • Caroline Criado Perez • coerced confesssions • Court Cases • Criminal Justice Reform • criminal justice system • Discrimination • eric cervini • Eric Holder • Exoneration • factually innocent • false confessions • forensic fraud • Gender Studies • Human Rights • Implicit Bias • important court cases • Injustice • innocence litigator • innocence movement • innocence project • Intersectionality • Invisible Women • Just Mercy • landmark cases • Law • Legal system • LGBT court cases • LGBTQ • LGBTQ history • lgbtq storieshistory • manifest injustice • Michelle Alexander • mistaken identification • opioid crisis • our unfinished march • over aggressive policing • over-aggressive policing • oversentenced • own voices • police abuse • police coercion • police reform • Policy Reform • Prejudice • Pride Month • prosecutorial misconduct • queer history • queer stories • queer writers • radical • required reading • Sister Outsider • social issues • Social Justice • Social Movements • testilying • The New Jim Crow • Trans • True Crime • women's studies • womens studies • wrongful conviction • Wrongful convictions • wrongfully convicted
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4153-9 / 0806541539
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4153-2 / 9780806541532