Author's sales track: The Little Book of Restorative Justice has sold over 170, 000 copies and been translated into 11 languages. Changing Lenses has been published in 7 languages and reissued several times, the latest edition (2015) continues to sell 1000 copies per year.
Author's reputation in the field: Zehr is known as "the grandfather of restorative justice" and is beloved by everyone working on criminal justice reform (he was introduced to us by Marc Mauer).
The New Press track in field: TNP criminal justice books routinely sell over 10, 000 copies, such as Understanding Mass Incarceration (10k in all editions), Chokehold (24K in all editions), and Until We Reckon (15K in all editions).
Traveling exhibit: The authors are in the process of setting up a traveling exhibit from the photos and text.
Success of the Genre: There is a steady market for this kind of longitudinal study, and good ones are extremely rare, excellent, classic examples include Milton Rogovin's Triptychs: Buffalo Revisited, Dale Maharidge's Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them, the 7-Up series film series, and Nicholas Nixon's The Brown Sisters. This book will also have some of the appeal of books like Material World, which make a sociological statement through photography.
Timely Topic: In 2019, over 200, 000 people were serving life or virtual life sentences-50, 000 of whom have no chance of parole.