Fordham Law School Professor John Pfaff was recently quoted in a Vox article about the imbalance between higher crime and criminal justice reform.
But as criminal justice expert John Pfaff recently argued on Twitter, crime-fighting policies shouldn’t always doom criminal justice reform. The gist of Pfaff’s argument: Even if some punitive “tough-on-crime” policies, such as more incarceration, can reduce crime, those benefits shouldn’t be readily accepted as an obvious good. They need to be evaluated alongside the policies’ potential costs — which can not only be high in budget terms, but also in their uneven impact on black Americans, who have been disproportionately locked up over the years.
Read the full Vox article and Professor Pfaff’s Twitter conversation.