
Conservative criminal justice policy: new directions and alternatives
Aiming to fill a void in the national conversation, this paper lays out the key planks of a credible, principled, ‘small-C’ conservative approach to criminal justice. However, our use of the term ‘conservative’ should not be conflated with partisan punditry. Our approach eschews simplistic ‘tough on crime’ rhetoric in favour of an approach that has four pillars: the common good...