The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) has given its 2024 award for finest guide to Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern College) for her Prison Testimonial Injustice.
In line with NASSP, “the Guide Award Committee reviewed 27 nominated books—lots of which had been distinctive—and agreed unanimously that Lackey ought to obtain the award.”
Criminal Testimonial Injustice is a guide that “attracts on work throughout philosophy, the legislation, and social psychology” to indicate that
there’s a distinctive epistemic unsuitable being perpetrated towards suspects, defendants, witnesses, and victims. This unsuitable entails brute State energy concentrating on the epistemic company of its residents, extracting false testimony that’s usually life-shattering, and rendering the victims in query complicit in their very own undoing.
The prize is offered on the NASSP annual conference, and features a plaque and panel session devoted to the guide.
NASSP notes that the picture on the duvet of the guide is a portray by Anthony Ehlers, a latest graduate of the Northwestern Jail Schooling Program, which is led by Professor Lackey.
An inventory of earlier winners of the award is here.
