Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn how to:
- Understand the evolution of the criminal justice system in the United States
- Understand how mass incarceration is powerfully linked to economic inequality in the United States
- Describe the political economy of the corrections sector, including powerful players and interests, as well as underrepresented ones
- Identify seven problems encountered in the criminal justice sector, as well as the policies, regulations, and organizational factors pertinent to them
- Develop Red Flag Alerts for each of the seven problems at the micro advocacy level
- Identify policy resources available to policy advocates with respect to each of the seven core problems
- Identify strategies for moving from micro policy advocacy to mezzo and macro policy advocacy in the criminal justice sector
- Engage the eight challenges in the multilevel policy empowerment framework in the criminal justice sector