Uncertain Justice: Fixing the Problems with the Police Prisons Immigrants Opioids and the Divisions in America

Why is there so much uncertainty about how to reduce crime and fix whats wrong with the criminal justice system? How can we make these fixes and lower the high costs of incarceration?UNCERTAIN JUSTICE discusses recent problems and suggests some fixes. To this end it presents a commentary based on a recent series of press releases on current issues and is divided into these sections: - Improving citizen-police relationships - Promoting prison reform and better prison sentencing - Healing the divisions in American society - Dealing with illegal immigration - Coping with the opioid crisis - Portraying the criminal justice crisis in popular culture - Using a social media and video campaign to help fix the criminal justice system. The chapters in each section highlight whats wrong in response to recent developments in legislation in the news and in research reports. Then each chapter concludes with some suggestions for reforming the system. Today these fixes are needed more than ever given the spiraling costs of crime and imprisoning too many prisoners for much longer than necessary. As the book describes we need to have as many productive understanding legal law-abiding citizens as possible to move the country forward.