Criminal Justice

Goals of Criminal Justice Policy:

• Deterrence

• Incapacitation

• Justice/Retribution

• Rehabilitation

• Public Order

• Efficiency

Crime in America: Two Stories

Crime in America: Major changes in crime rates (surge and decline + recent increase)

Crime in America: Cross-national perspective

Crime in America: Crime and deterrence (certainty, swiftness, and severity)

Policing: Key features, what works and doesn’t

Policing: Race

Policing: Police Reform and “Defund the Police

Age of Mass Incarceration: Costs and Benefits

Age of Mass Incarceration: Rising Prison Populations

Age of Mass Incarceration: Prison Bottleneck

Age of Mass Incarceration: Myth of “non-violent drug offender” solution

Age of Mass Incarceration: Myth of “It’s the private prisons” solution

Age of Mass Incarceration: Prison Alternatives/Smarter deterrence

Age of Mass Incarceration: Race and Mass Incarceration

Drugs and Crime: Drug Use

Drugs and Crime: The “War on Drugs”

Drugs and Crime: Treatment/public health/harm reduction

Drugs and Crime: Marijuana legalization/decriminalization

Drugs and Crime: Smarter enforcement

Drugs and Crime: Politics and public opinion

Guns and Crime: Crime and Gun Ownership

Guns and Crime: America and Guns

Guns and Crime: Gun control effectiveness

Guns and Crime: Evolving 2nd Amendment

Guns and Crime: Gun policies that could work and be Constitutional

Guns and Crime: Politics of reforming gun laws

Death Penalty: As public policy

Death Penalty: US as capital punishment outlier

Death Penalty: Paradox of death penalty deterrence