How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors "An extraordinary and long overdue collection offering myriad ways that we can and must completely overhaul the way we imagine as well as implement &8216;justice.'" -Heather Ann Thompson, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water&10;After decades of overpolicing and ever-more punitive criminal justice measures, the time has come for a new approach to violence and community safety. Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice brings together leading activists, legal practitioners, and researchers, many of them justice-involved, to envision a justice system that applies a less-is-more framework to achieve the goal of public safety. Grounded in a new social contract heralding safety not punishment, community power not state power, the book describes a paradigm shift where justice is provided not by police and prisons, but in healing from harm.&10;A distinguished cast of contributors from the Square One Project at Columbia University&8217;s Justice Lab shows that a parsimonious approach to punishment, alongside a reckoning with racism and affirming human dignity, would fundamentally change how we respond to harm.