The awardwinning ampampquotradically originalampampquot The Atlantic restorative justice leader whose work the Washington Post has called ampampamp8220totally sensible and totally revolutionaryampampamp8221 grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolitionA National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoreeampampamp10A Kirkus ampampamp8220Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobiaampampamp8221ampampamp10Winner of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice Journalism Awardampampamp10Finalist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justiceampampamp10In a book Democracy Now calls a ampampamp8220complete overhaul of the way weve been taught to think about crime punishment and justiceampampamp8221 Danielle Sered the executive director of Common Justice and renowned expert on violence offers pragmatic solutions that take the place of prison meeting the needs of survivors and creating pathways for people who have committed violence to repair harm. Critically Sered argues that reckoning is owed not only on the part of individuals who have caused violence but also by our nation for its overreliance on incarceration to produce safetyat a great cost to communities survivors racial equity and the very fabric of our democracy.ampampamp10Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on nonviolent and drug offenses. Called ampampamp8220innovativeampampamp8221 and ampampamp8220truly remarkableampampamp8221 by The Atlantic and ampampamp8220a topnotch entry into the burgeoning incarceration debateampampamp8221 by Kirkus Reviews Seredampampamp8217s Until We Reckon argues with searing force and clarity that our communities are safer the less we rely on prisons and jails as a solution for wrongdoing.ampampamp10Sered asks us to reconsider the purposes of incarceration and argues persuasively that the needs of survi