Need-response emerges as a new professional service to complement, or potentially compete with, the innocence movement, to clear the "unexonerated". Only need-response gets to the core of clearing the many innocent, by more effectively responding to all involved needs. We invite everyone working within the innocence movement to engage this fresh approach to serving one another’s underserved justice needs.

Need-response emerges as a new professional service to complement, or potentially compete with, the adversarial judicial system to serve the public’s justice needs. Only need-response emphasizes understanding the unresolved needs fueling conflicts, and how to more effectively respond to such needs. We invite everyone working within the judicial system to engage this fresh approach to serving one another’s underserved needs.

Toxic legalism prioritizes laws over serving the needs for which they exist. Here are at least 5 ways we slip into such legalistic disarray.

Responsivism is the belief and practice that responding to each other's needs produces better results than hostile legal options.

ENGAGE! Earn a reputation for resolving needs, even if that requires transforming social norms that get in the way.

A bulk of overlooked needs in society result from professional power relations and their unresponsive institutions. Social power silences...