This “Tough-On-Crime” Politician Is Singing A New Tune On Criminal Justice Reform, But Should We Buy It?

06. February 2017 Uncategorized 2
This “Tough-On-Crime” Politician Is Singing A New Tune On Criminal Justice Reform, But Should We Buy It?
The setting is Massachusetts.  It’s early in the 1990s, and a circle of lawmakers and politicians are working together to politically capitalize on a brand new public sensation: fear-mongering around so-called “super-predators”, or young sadistic teenagers with the capacity to commit unthinkably heinous crimes. Struck with sensationalized images and stories of city gang violence, people ...