Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice

Jeremy Travis is Executive Vice President for Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures and the former president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He was director of the National Institute of Justice, clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was special counsel to the NYPD commissioner. The author of But They All Come Back, co-editor of Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America and Prisoners Once Removed, and co-author (with Bruce Western) of Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice (The New Press), he lives in New York City.Bruce Western is the Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow, and a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. The author of Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison and Punishment and Inequality in America and co-author (with Jeremy Travis) of Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice (The New Press), he lives in New York City.

Praise for Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice:"[Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice] blends cutting-edge scholarship with trenchant analyses of the path to a more humane, equitable, and just criminal justice system."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books“Innovative, well-researched, and persuasive, this is a full-throated call for change.”—Publishers Weekly“At a moment of growing support to challenge mass incarceration, Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice provides us with a compelling vision for transforming our approach to public safety. It is long past time to reject punishment as a guiding principle and to adopt instead a strategy that relies on strengthening the capacity of individuals and communities to thrive.”—Marc Mauer, senior advisor, The Sentencing Project, and author of Race to Incarcerate“Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice goes beyond discussions of fairness. It broaches and confronts social inequality, white supremacy, and racialized capitalism to expand how we understand justice. These ideas will inspire scholars, advocates, and activists to focus on the root causes that infuse policy and practice with ideologies that cause tremendous harm to whole segments of American society.”—DeAnna R. Hoskins, president and CEO, JustLeadershipUSA