justice reform
Fixing court systems
Justice reform refers to efforts to change legal and criminal justice systems—courts, policing, prisons, sentencing—to make them fairer, less punitive, or more effective.
The term often signals progressive goals: reducing incarceration, eliminating racial disparities, ending cash bail, or emphasizing rehabilitation over punishment.
She's been involved in justice reform since the 1990s.
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- wrongful convictionsErroneous guilty verdicts
- innocent until provenLegal presumption favoring accused
- fair trialImpartial judicial proceeding
- racial equityJustice regardless of ethnicity
systemic racism · clemency · sentencing guidelines · prison overcrowding · decarceration · police accountability · judicial ethics · civil rights legislation · public defenders · racial profiling · wrongful · community policing · advocacy · anti-discrimination laws · probation · decriminalization · accountability · abolition
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- judicial reformjudicial independence, judicial appointments, judicial conduct, judicial ethics, court procedure
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
- Social Reformabolitionism, prohibition, anti-slavery, temperance, progressive era
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
justice reformtough on crime
Favoring strict punishment
mass incarceration · law and order · mandatory minimums · zero tolerance · retributive justice
justice reformanti-abolitionism
Opposition to ending slavery