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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Since the 1980s, America’s justice system has embraced excessively harsh punishments and widespread mass incarceration policies.
Chapter 3: The criminal justice system has disproportionately mistreated African-Americans across the country.
Chapter 4: America’s flawed criminal justice system has inflicted serious consequences on children.
Chapter 5: Women were another significant casualty of the unjust criminal justice system.
Chapter 6: America’s mentally ill were trapped in the catch-all net of mass incarceration.
Chapter 7: The consequences of mass incarceration reach beyond the individual prisoner and often damage their entire community.
Chapter 8: The early 2000s have seen reforms in the American criminal justice system.
Description
Just Mercy (2014) is a walk through the American criminal justice system of the 1980s. These blinks explain how a system that is supposed to safeguard the rights of the nation’s citizens became an unjust tool to mistreat and abuse the most vulnerable members of society through mass incarceration and excessive sentencing.
Who Should Listen
- Lawyers, judges and legal scholars
- Anybody interested in the legal history of America
- People wanting to understand the unjust nature of America’s criminal justice system