How to curb violence, and mass incarceration, by focusing on crime victims

Stoneleigh Fellow Danielle Sered and Common Justice are featured in The Washington Post.

I first met Danielle Sered last fall when she spoke on a Washington Post Live panel about criminal justice reform (video above). Her ideas, and her practical experience with the Brooklyn-based group Common Justice, struck me as both totally sensible and totally revolutionary. Today, Sered and Common Justice, a project of the Vera Institute of Justice, are releasing a detailed report titled “Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration,” based on national research and Sered’s experiences putting crime victims and the people who harm them at the same table, rather than funneling them through conventional prosecution channels. Here, Sered explains how “survivor-centered” approaches can make a difference in both stopping violence and ending America’s overuse of punitive imprisonment.

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