Criminal justice reform centers on the pressing issues surrounding the criminal justice system in the united states, particularly in light of heightened public awareness and activism in the 2010s and early 2020s. Some proposals require legislation, while others can be achieved through executive action. Considerable efforts and resources have been expended to enact reforms to the criminal justice system over the last five decades. We list some high-impact policy ideas for state legislators and advocates who are looking to reform their criminal justice system without making it bigger. Concerns about dramatic increases in violent crime beginning in the late sixties and accelerating into the 1980s led to. · the front-end of our justice system—where critical decisions by police, prosecutors, and judges shape lives—remains one of the most urgent yet neglected areas for reform. · with last year behind us, we can look back and see that criminal justice reform has resurfaced as a bipartisan priority across the country. The recommendations include ways to improve the federal criminal justice system, where the president and congress can exert the most direct influence, as well as funding measures to shape policies at the local, state, tribal, and territorial levels. The 2020–2021 national high school debate topic: · lawmakers across the country have rolled back reforms meant to decrease reliance on police and prisons, even though data suggests that crime rates are broadly trending down.

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