Need Response
a new professional field applying the discipline of anankelogy
NEED
RESPONSE
Disappointed in the Innocence Movement? You know you or your loved one is innocent of a wrongful conviction, but you can get few if anyone in authority to take a meaningful look.
Innocence agency serves as a bridge between your viable innocence claim and those with the potential to do something about it. It cannot promise exoneration, but can potentially deliver something far better. Maybe we can create justice beyond the legal system. Ready to blaze a new trail with us? Simply start with your automatically estimated innocence.
In a series of weekly online sessions, starting only a half-hour each, innocence agency personally supports your journey for justice. In five strategic phases, it raises the bar on how to address this overlooked problem of wrongful convictions. After enduring years of lost innocence, you and your loved ones deserve no less.
Phase 1. DISCOVERY
Needs Come First
There is no greater authority under heaven than resolved needs.
Every law and every authority exists in response to some need. Those needs emerged first as objective reality. You do not choose to be thirsty, for example, but objectively must replenish lost fluids in order to fully function. All norms and laws regarding water emerged as culturally shaped responses to it. Once your thirst is quenched, you need no authority to tell you how you can quench your thirst.
Laws May Hinder Needs
Stretch your capacity to endure natural discomfort inherent in resolving needs
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While no one sits above the law, no law sits above the needs they exist to serve.
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Phase 2. LOOK INWARD
Phase 3. LOOK OUTWARD
Phase 3. LOOK OUTWARD
NR levels legal systems power imbalance
NR empower the innocence claimant to speak truth to power. While simultaneously incentivizing powerholders to listen to those impacted.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but sometimes they make a law.
IPM, psychosociotherapy change relations
Phase 4. LOOK AT THE SOURCE
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Phase 4.
LOOK TO
THE SOURCE
Phase 5. LOOK UP
Phase 5. LOOK UP
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LAW ENFORCEMENT
THEORY OF CHANGE
win a legal battle to ease own pain
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NEED-RESPONSE
THEORY OF CHANGE
change relations to resolve needs
affirms the inflexible needs of each side in a conflict
level legal system power imbalance
IPM
adjust relation to mutually resolve needs
psychosociotherapy
measurably improve functioning
improved functioning removes cause for pain
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COUNSELING
THEORY OF CHANGE
change oneself to relieve pain
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Challenge of power relations
Perhaps you see it. A widening crack emerges between innocence litigators and the wrongly convicted claimants. Let's face reality. This is a power relation where the litigators holds almost all the cards. To cling to hope, innocence claimants may feel they must bend to the apparent whims of these lawyers. To avoid losing this last line of hope for exoneration, innocence claimants may feel coerced into substandard results. Until they give up and resign to their fate. Or not...
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POWERHOLDER
POWERLESS
Power dynamics impede just outcomes
Need-response identifies the relative powerholder in the relation as the "ascribed impactor" or "AI" for short. They impact the relation more than impacted by it.
Later in the process, they become the "acknowledged impactor" when admitting they impact the relation more than impacted by it.
Need-response identifies the relatively powerless in the relation as the "reporting impactee" or "RI" for short. They are impacted by the relation more than impacted by it.
We keep it "reporting" since they report they are impacted by the relation more than impacted by it, but the facts may show otherwise.
The powerholding AI tends to get more of what from the relation they want than the less powerful RI. The innocence lawyer tends to extract more of what they want than the innocence claimant can get what they want.
The prosecutor tends to extract more of what they seek than the innocence lawyer seeks from the prosecutor.
Avoidance options
Lawyers risk being disingenuous when assuming the law rules over all of our behaviors. Needs rule our behavior, not laws.
Adversarial options
The more the powerful lawyer avoids the discomfort of addressing the legal needs of the relatively powerless innocence claimant, then the less legitimate to serve the vulnerable. The more a legal system avoids addressing the needs it impacts in good faith, the less legitimate that legal system.
Beyond "conflict porn"
perpetuate alienation; oppositional stance (monkey trap of taking opposing sides), to avoid discomfort of personally relating to each other's affected needs
Let's address each other's needs to produce greater results
Conciliatory options
If the standard adversarial approach of the legal system repeatedly fails to deliver on our justice needs, consider a conciliatory approach. Nobody enjoys being repeatedly opposed.
Counter norms of alienating with
All needs sit equal under nature.
Core needs sit above the law.
No one holds authority over your core needs.
Premature opposition tends to undercut resolving needs
Let's address each other's needs to produce greater results
POWERHOLDER innocence lawyers
initial pain points
How long does it take you to transcribe and process each wrongful conviction claim?
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How much of your limited resources goes into identifying what you can do for the claim?
How much of your limited resources goes into locating source documents for the claim?
How much of your limited resources goes into handling difficult claimants?
Click the button to see how many are still wrongly convicted. Explore the research on estimated rates of wrongful convictions.
POWERLESS innocence claimants
initial pain points
How many times have you filled out (re-traumatizing) paper claim forms?
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What’s the quickest response you ever received from an innocence project finding?
How many times were you then told they cannot serve you?
How sensitive has these lawyers been to your needs?
Do you feel they serve the needs of institutional law more than your need for justice?
Click the button to see how many are still wrongly convicted. Explore the research on estimated rates of wrongful convictions.
the power to keep claimant's hope alive
