{"id":880,"date":"2021-06-30T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/?p=880"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:37:09","slug":"professor-jessica-henrys-book-picked-as-silver-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/2021\/06\/30\/professor-jessica-henrys-book-picked-as-silver-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jessica Henry&#8217;s Book Picked as Silver Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Henry&#8217;s book, <em>Smoke but No Fire: <span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened<\/span><\/em>, was recently announced as a silver award winner in the 22nd annual <em>Foreword Reviews<\/em> INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Political &amp; Social Sciences category. The INDIES recognize the best books published in 2020 from small, indie, and university presses, as well as self-published authors.<\/p>\n<p>Henry&#8217;s book, published in August 2020, is the first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction\u2014one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. <em>Smoke but No Fire<\/em> tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. \u00a0A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, Henry, a former New York City public defender, sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows\u2014even encourages\u2014these convictions to regularly occur.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, Henry&#8217;s book was also named a Montaigne Medal award winner as one of the year&#8217;s &#8220;most thought-provoking books.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Smoke but No Fire&#8221; was named a silver award winner for best book in the INDIES Book of the Year Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/justice-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}