MEASURED JUSTICE: Criminal Justice Reform Updates Two Years Post Election with Prof. Stephen Smith

Legal-Ease Podcast

In December 2020, Notre Dame Law School Professor Stephen F. Smith, wrote a post-election update for the Academy for Justice detailing how he saw criminal justice efforts playing out in the newly elected Biden Administration over the next four years. In this episode of Measured Justice, we spoke with Professor Smith to see where we are at two years later in the fight for criminal justice reform, specifically in the rise and fall of the “defund the police” movement; President Biden’s “Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing, and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety Executive Order; sentencing, mass incarceration and racial disparities; and whether the Biden Administration can reconcile its own criminal justice reform goals with those within the Democratic and Republican Parties.