Prerequisites: RCC; Mass incarceration, mass post-conviction supervision, significant outcome disparity and elusive systems-wide alignment, continue to be the defining characteristics of the U.S. Criminal Justice system. This newly proposed seminar will examine criminal justice reform from both policy and advocacy perspectives. The course will examine: 1) the problems with the American criminal justice system; 2) the institutional actors involved in the effort to create criminal justice reform; 3) the ideas currently circulating to address specific problems in the system; and 4) the strategies used in pressing for criminal justice reform through both policy change and litigation. The course will highlight the roles and interests of key stakeholders in the criminal justice system, including judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, correctional officers, as well as scholars and advocates for reform. The course is available as 2 or 3 credits. Students must register for the three-credit section of the seminar if they wish to write a paper fulfilling the upper level writing requirement. Students not seeking the upper level writing credit may enroll for two credits.