Social Justice Reform

Extracted Attributes

• Goal

  Align social or political system with community's ideal principles

• Type

  Social movement

• Methods

  Personal transformation, collective action

• Distinction

  Different from revolutionary movements (does not reject existing ideals)

• Core Principles

  Equal rights, equal opportunity, equal treatment

• Ideological Basis

  Liberalism, social democracy, religious concepts

• Key Issues Addressed

  Legal inequality, economic inequality, political inequality, women's rights, workers' rights, exploitation of immigrants and children, social discrimination, health inequality, climate change effects, homelessness, racial equity, criminal justice reform, drug policy reform, policing practices

• Historical Application Period

  Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Timeline

• The Newark, New Jersey, Police Department began implementing a package of comprehensive police reforms after a U.S. Department of Justice investigation found systemic officer misconduct. (Source: Web Search)

  2016-01-01

• Five key discussions shaped the justice reform movement during this year. (Source: Web Search)

  2020-01-01

• The state of Illinois enacted a sweeping criminal justice reform law, setting a statewide standard for use of force and empowering the state attorney general to investigate unconstitutional policing practices. (Source: Web Search)

  2021-02-01

• Top trends in criminal justice reform were identified, including extreme sentencing and decarceration reforms, challenging racial disparity, and drug policy reform. (Source: Web Search)

  2022-01-01

Reformism (historical)

Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements which reject those old ideals, in that the ideas are often grounded in liberalism, although they may be rooted in socialist (specifically, social democratic) or religious concepts. Some rely on personal transformation; others rely on small collectives, such as Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel and the self-sustaining village economy, as a mode of social change. Reactionary movements, which can arise against any of these, attempt to put things back the way they were before any successes the new reform movement(s) enjoyed, or to prevent any such successes.

Web Search Results

• Social justice | Definition, Theories, Examples, & Facts

  Still other accounts define social justice, or justice itself, in terms of broad categories of human rights, including the entire range of civil and political rights (such as the rights to personal liberty and to participation in government), economic and social rights (such as the rights to employment and to education), and solidarity or group rights (such as the rights to political independence and to economic development). In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, legal reformers in England and the United States, some of whom were inspired by utilitarianism, began to apply the notion of social justice to issues of legal, economic, and political inequality, including women’s rights, the rights of workers, and the exploitation of immigrants and children.

• Top Trends in Criminal Justice Reform, 2022 - The Sentencing Project

  Overview · Extreme Sentencing and Decarceration Reforms · Challenging Racial Disparity · Drug Policy Reform · Limiting Incarceration for Probation

• What is Social Justice?

  Jun 15, 2024—While definitions vary in wording, they have commonalities:Equal rights, equal opportunity and equal treatment.

• What is social justice? Definitions and examples of injustice

  # What is social justice? * Social justice issues include social discrimination, health inequality, the effect of climate change on specific groups, and homelessness From 2013 to 2022, there were more than 47,000 Taylor & Francis articles published that included the term "social justice." These are in areas including everything from education and health to leisure and engineering. "Social justice is aimed at promoting a society which is just and equitable, valuing diversity, providing equal opportunities to all its members, irrespective of their disability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or religion, and ensuring fair allocation of resources and support for their human rights." #### Social justice and sustainability * Social justice hub

• 5 Discussions That Shaped the Justice Reform Movement in 2020

  Advancing Racial Equity and Justice, Restoring Social Trust in Democracy, Criminal Justice Reform, Gun Violence Prevention, Juneteenth, Policing, Race and Criminal Justice, State and Local Policy+5 More For example, the Newark, New Jersey, Police Department began implementing a package of comprehensive police reforms in 2016 after a U.S. Department of Justice investigation found systemic officer misconduct within the department, including biased policing practices and excessive use of force. * **Illinois.** The state of Illinois enacted a sweeping criminal justice reform law in February 2021 that sets a statewide standard for use of force, empowers the state attorney general to investigate unconstitutional policing practices, and creates a process for decertifying police officers who engage in misconduct.