Crime in America is associated with the lower classes, the ghetto, the others, the Colony. But what would the politics of crime look like in a place where people worried not only about victimization but also about the costs of overly punitive policing and prosecution? What kind of justice system would exist in a setting in which each member of society were actually valued as a full human with tremendous potential, even if he or she committed a crime, or hurt someone, or broke the community’s norms and were held accountable? What would it look like to have a system where, behind the veil of
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