The award-winning "radically original" (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called &8220;totally sensible and totally revolutionary,&8221; grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolitionA National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoree&10;A Kirkus &8220;Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobia&8221;&10;Winner of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice Journalism Award&10;Finalist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice&10;In a book Democracy Now calls a &8220;complete overhaul of the way we've been taught to think about crime, punishment, and justice,&8221; 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 safety-at a great cost to communities, survivors, racial equity, and the very fabric of our democracy.&10;Although 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.