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The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal about American Justice

The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal about American Justice

Vartkessian, Elizabeth
Prejean, Sister Helen

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $18.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 16, 2027

ISBN13: 9798260202012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Mar 16 2027
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

The first book I'm aware of to pull back the curtain on a life-saving field most have never heard of: mitigation. --Sister Helen Prejean, from the foreword

Elizabeth Vartkessian works with criminal defense teams as a mitigation specialist. She isn't part of the Innocence Project; her clients are often legally guilty, and often of terrible crimes. Rather, her job is to spend hundreds of hours per case talking to the parents, siblings, teachers, and neighbors of a defendant, putting their crimes in context.

Vartkessian weaves powerful stories from her extraordinary career into an inspiring argument for dignity in American justice. We recognize the link between trauma and violence. How can we, then, continue to stomach penalties that deny real justice to perpetrators and victims alike?

Amid the Trump administration's record-high executions and calls to expand the use of the death penalty, The Deserving is required reading for a dangerous era of retribution. Vartkessian offers a compelling, insightful, hope-filled call for community responsibility and true rehabilitation.

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