About the Author:
Susan Herman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Pace University. From 1997 to 2004, she served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in government, criminal justice, and social services, Ms. Herman is an internationally recognized spokesperson for victims of crime and a new vision of justice for victims, parallel justice.
Previously, Ms. Herman served as Director of Community Services at The Enterprise Foundation, Director of the Domestic Violence Division of Victim Services (now Safe Horizon) in New York City, Special Counsel to the Police Commissioner of New York City, Director of Mediation Services at the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, as an attorney at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and as an instructor at New York University's School of Law and NYU's Wagner School of Public Service. Ms. Herman is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Antioch School of Law.
Review:
In this important book Herman not only outlines why parallel obligations--to victims and offenders--are necessary, she offers a theory of how this might work, with concrete suggestions for where we can start today, in our own communities. --Howard Zehr, Professor of Restorative Justice, Eastern Mennonite University, author of Changing Lenses, and The Little Book of Restorative Justice
Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime is a critically cogent explanation of how we fail victims of crime in this country, and an elegantly lucid prescription for how to make progress in delivering justice to them. --Tracey Meares, Deputy Dean and Walter Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School
Susan Herman's quietly passionate manifesto serves to show even those of us committed to preventing victimization that we neglect actual victims, both in theory and in practice. Parallel Justice offers both a conceptual framework and immediate, practical steps toward redressing crime's awful impact on individuals, families, and communities. --David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime is a critically cogent explanation of how we fail victims of crime in this country, and an elegantly lucid prescription for how to make progress in delivering justice to them. --Tracey Meares, Deputy Dean and Walter Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School
Susan Herman's quietly passionate manifesto serves to show even those of us committed to preventing victimization that we neglect actual victims, both in theory and in practice. Parallel Justice offers both a conceptual framework and immediate, practical steps toward redressing crime's awful impact on individuals, families, and communities. --David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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