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Houppert, Karen

 
9781620970263: Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People s Justice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1620970260 ISBN 13: 9781620970263
Verlag: The New Press, 2015

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First published to mark the fifty-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed the right to legal counsel for all criminal defendants, Chasing Gideon is “a hugely important book” (New York Law Journal) that gives us a visceral, unforgettable experience of our systemic failure to fulfill this basic constitutional right. Written in the tradition of Gideon's Trumpet, by the late Anthony Lewis, this is “a book of nightmares,” as Leonard Pitts wrote in the Miami Herald, because it shows that the “‘justice system' too often produces the opposite of what its name suggests, particularly for its most vulnerable constituents.”

Following its publication, Chasing Gideon, which ACLU director Anthony Romero said “illustrates the scope and seriousness of the indigent defense crisis,” became an integral part of a growing national conversation about how to reform indigent defense in America, coordinated with an HBO documentary and a website to promote the book and the movie. The effort spread news about Chasing Gideon directly to public defenders offices nationwide and drove a national conversation about what Eric Holder called the “shameful state of affairs” of indigent defense (in the Washington Post).

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Karen Houppert was a contributing writer at the Washington Post Magazine for many years. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Newsday, the New York Times, Mother Jones, the Village Voice, Salon, and many other publications. She is the author of three books: Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (The New Press); Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military—for Better or Worse; and The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo, Menstruation. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches in the MA in Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1620970260
ISBN 13 
9781620970263
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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