New Jersey Star Ledger — Social and Economic Issues — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

Social and Economic Issues

Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.

1 single good encounter with a cop engenders a lot of trust, study finds

“The contemporary crisis of police legitimacy and public distrust poses a dire threat to public safety, and experts have called for increased investment in “community-oriented policing (COP).” This strategy, born in the tumult of the Civil Rights era, is based on a longstanding assumption: positive, non-enforcement interactions between police and the public can help build relationships. But decades and hundreds of millions of dollars later, the hope that a single interaction can help build trust has been little more than a well-intentioned assumption held by the public, politicians, and police“

New Jersey Star-Ledger

September 29, 2019

PersonalismPhillip ReevesSeptember 29, 2019New Jersey Star LedgerComment

Social and Economic Issues

Galsworthy CJR Program

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