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A blueprint for criminal justice reform that puts a new generation of public defenders front and center in the fight for legal equality Public defenders represent over eighty percent of those who interact with the court system, but even the most well-meaning are over-worked, under-funded, and incentivized to put the interests of judges and politicians above those of their clients in a culture that has led to an embarrassingly low standard of justice. Rather than arguing for a change in rules, Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a fiercely client-based ethos. Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping reveals the pervasive issues inherent in our current system of public defense, and lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.

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9781662005039

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Jonathan Rapping is the founder and president of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture and practice of public defense in America. He was awarded a 2014 MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellowship for his work as a criminal-justice innovator. He is a professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School and Harvard Law School. He lives with his wife and their two children in Atlanta, Georgia. Frank Gerard is a veteran voice actor, audiobook narrator, and character voice artist. Known for his impressions of US presidents, celebrities, and cartoon characters, he records and produces from his private studio in northeast Connecticut, where he has narrated over thirty audiobooks and produced over a thousand commercials, videos, and other voiceover projects.

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