An argument for a correctional system that’s informed by an understanding of the traumas that can lead people to commit crimes. January 9, 2025 | bhammack | News A new book—co-authored by Kevin Wright, a criminal justice professor at Arizona State University, and a man named Erik Maloney, who’s currently serving a life sentence at a prison in Arizona—is an argument for a correctional system that’s informed by an understanding of the traumas that can lead people to commit crimes. In the book, Maloney interviews six fellow incarcerated people about their life stories to try to understand who they were before they were arrested and convicted. Listen to the interview here.
