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Criminal justice reform in the United States is aimed at fixing perceived errors in the criminal justice system. Goals of organizations spearheading the movement for criminal justice reform include decreasing the United States' prison population, reducing prison sentences that are perceived to be too harsh and long, altering drug sentencing policy, policing reform, reducing overcriminalization, and juvenile justice reform.

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Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings.

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Criminal Justice, Law). Whilst these proposals mainly concerned criminal legal aid, they also included reforms which will affect the remaining areas of law funded through civil legal aid.

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criminal law, the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment. A tort is a civil wrong committed against an individual; a crime, on the other hand, is regarded as an offense committed against the public, even though only one individual may have been wronged.

At least in terms of categories of culpability, however, some scholars have begun to outline specific avenues for the judicial development of a more pluralistic form of international criminal law, one informed by a heightened sensitivity to different local cultural contexts. Failure: When are International Criminal Courts Likely to be Believed by Local Audiences?’, in Heller, K. J. et al. (ed., The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (forthcoming).