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Samuel H. Pillsbury is Professor of Law and Frederick J. Lower Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He teaches criminal law, criminal practice and American legal history. A nationally recognized scholar in criminal responsibility, punishment and emotion and the law, his previous books include Judging Evil: Rethinking the Laws of Murder and Manslaughter and How Criminal Law Works. After college, Pillsbury was a reporter covering police and courts in North Florida. He then earned his law degree at the University of Southern California, where he graduated first in his class. He clerked for US District Judge William Matthew Byrne, Jr., and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles before going into teaching. In 2006 he was ordained as an Episcopal deacon. He has volunteered as a chaplain in LA juvenile detention halls and jails, as well as prisons in California and New York. He has also worked with survivors of homicide and families with loved ones in prison.
This is a very important book and I am hopeful it finds a wide readership. Pillsbury has galvanized our imagination of the justice system we actually could have. He manages to get underneath all the issues we need to explore with sophistication, keen insight and great heart. He proposes a point of view both larger and more humble and our country will benefit greatly...if we listen to him. Gregory Boyle, S.J. Founder of Homeboy Industries, Author of Tattoos on the Heart:The Power of Boundless Compassion I have long admired Samuel Pillsbury's writing on crime and punishment for its intellectual rigor and commitment to make the law more just and humane. In Imagining a Greater Justice-Criminal Violence, Punishment, and Relational Justice he has produced his most important work. Drawing on law and social science and on his own work with crime victims and offenders, Pillsbury details the complex harms suffered by victims of violence and explores how offenders have come to commit violence. He creatively employs the perspectives of the different vocations he has followed -- journalist, attorney, academic, and Episcopal deacon -- to develop a concept of relational justice for crimes of violence. Relational justice includes punishment, but sees justice as finally a community endeavor that should help victims heal and offenders be redeemed. Imagining A Greater Justice challenged some of my own views about crime and punishment; I am confident that it will challenge many others, as the best writing often does. Jeffrie G. Murphy, Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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