In terms of racial justice, how far do you think we have come since Mr. Stevenson first began his work as a lawyer? How can Stevenson’s book be a tool for society in our current racially tense environment? What should we, as a society, learn from this pie

As one of the EJI's main focuses, the charging and sentencing of children as adults arises several times throughout the memoir. Stevenson comments that the fear and anger in the 1980s and early 1990s that fueled mass incarceration led to black and brown children being labeled as “superpredators” by criminologists. New laws led to harsher sentencing for juvenile offenders, but by 2000 the juvenile population had increased while juvenile crime rates decreased, thereby disproving the superpredator theory. Stevenson details how constitutional challenges he brings to the Supreme Court lead to the mitigation of sentences for children serving adult sentences. I think we are learning from Mr. Stevenson's example but still have a ways to go.