Can Conservative Criminal Justice Reform Survive Donald Trump?
This year’s Republican National Convention featured Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, passionately emphasizing his crime policy platform in a short, concise phrase: 'Law and order.' Referencing this phrase five times in his speech, Trump drifted towards the tough on crime narrative President Nixon used in not only his bid for election, but also in crafting some of the most influential crime policies of that time. This influence on crime policy in the decades following led to overpopulated prisons and non-violent offenders serving long sentences.
