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Premal Dharia at Harvard Book Store
presenting
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
in conversation with Andrew Manuel Crespo
DateSep
10
Tuesday
September 10, 2024 7:00 PM ET |
StandortHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store and Inquest welcome Premal Dharia—executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School—for a discussion of her new book Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change. She will be joined in conversation by Andrew Manuel Crespo—Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Premal will be donating a portion of the proceeds from book sales at the event to Inquest to support its work amplifying incarcerated writers.
About Dismantling Mass Incarceration
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The incarceration of vast numbers of people, and the punitive treatment of African Americans in particular, are targets of widespread criticism. But despite the election of progressive prosecutors and the passage of reform legislation, the system remains very much intact. How can the damage and depredations of the carceral state be undone?
In this pathbreaking reader, three of the nation’s leading advocates—Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria Hawilo—provide us with tools to move from despair and critique to hope and action. Dismantling Mass Incarceration surveys new approaches to confronting the carceral state in all its guises, exploring ways that police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, prisons, and even life after prison can be radically reconceived. The book captures debates about the comparative merits of reforming or abolishing prisons and police forces, and introduces a host of bold but practical interventions. The contributors range from noted figures such as Angela Davis, Clint Smith, and Larry Krasner to local organizers, judges, and people currently or formerly incarcerated. The result is an invaluable guide for students, activists, and anyone who wishes to understand mass incarceration—and hasten its end.
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Inquest is a forum for advancing bold ideas to end mass incarceration in the United States. Here, you will find original, insightful work by thinkers and doers across a broad range of experience and expertise, united in the belief that mass incarceration is an epic injustice that can and must urgently end.
Our authors include leading and new voices across fields—from activism and community organizing to law and policy, academia, journalism, and public health. Drawing on their lived experience and their accumulated wisdom, they come here to share ideas, narratives, and analyses that boldly explore the causes and consequences of mass incarceration and that provoke rigorous discussion—all aimed at driving thoughtful action.
Our readers come to learn, to think, to challenge themselves, and to join in the work. We see our core audience as those who are actively engaged in the hard and necessary project of decarceration. We understand them to share a common set of values and also a common sense of curiosity, along with a desire to learn from and to be pushed by their peers. Understanding our core audience this way, we do not set out to persuade our readers that mass incarceration exists or that it represents an unconscionable instantiation of racial injustice and oppression. Likewise, while we aim to spark a conversation that is welcoming and accessible to newcomers and beginners, we do not aim primarily to explain the basic contours of mass incarceration to those encountering it for the first time.
Rather, our mission is to create a space where the voices of those doing the thinking and the work—the people closest to the problem, including those directly impacted by mass incarceration—can come together to share ideas and be heard as they pursue bold solutions.
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