RT Article
T1 Reflections on Criminal Justice Reform: Challenges and Opportunities
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 47
IS 6
SP 1071
OP 1098
A1 Lattimore, Pamela K.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883306108
AB Considerable efforts and resources have been expended to enact reforms to the criminal justice system over the last five decades. Concerns about dramatic increases in violent crime beginning in the late Sixties and accelerating into the 1980s led to the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Crime" that included implementation of more punitive policies and dramatic increases in incarceration and community supervision. More recent reform efforts have focused on strategies to reduce the negative impacts of policing, the disparate impacts of pretrial practices, and better strategies for reducing criminal behavior. Renewed interest in strategies and interventions to reduce criminal behavior has coincided with a focus on identifying "what works." Recent increases in violence have shifted the national dialog from a focus on progressive reforms to reduce reliance on punitive measures and the disparate impact of the legal system on some groups to a focus on increased investment in "tough on crime" criminal justice approaches. This essay offers some reflections on the "Waged Wars" and the efforts to identify "What Works" based on nearly 40 years of work evaluating criminal justice reform efforts.
K1 Criminal Justice Reform
K1 US Correctional
K1 War on Crime
K1 War on drugs
DO 10.1007/s12103-022-09713-5