Alec Karakatsanis

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it. Usual Cruelty cuts to the core of what is critical to understand about our legal system, and about ourselves. - Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU Alec Karakatsanis is interested in...

In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of Copaganda. Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society's response to it. What readers will discover: How mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us...

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it. Usual Cruelty cuts to the core of what is critical to understand about our legal system, and about ourselves." - Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU Alec Karakatsanis is interested in...