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Position of the Reform Movement on Criminal Justice

Resolutions:

URJ

Resolution on the Crisis of Racial and Structural Inequality in the United States (2014)

Resolution on Race and the US Criminal Justice System (1999)

Resolution on Crime (1968)

CCAR

Resolution on Racial Justice (2015)

Resolution on Race and the Criminal Justice System (1999)

Resolution on Urban Crisis (1993)

Resolution on Teen Suicide (1987)

Resolution on Rabbis Serving as Prison Chaplains (1980)

Resolution on Criminal Justice Reform Act (1976)

Resolution on Police State (1974)

Resolution on Juvenile Delinquency (1974)


WRJ

Resolution on Crime and the Criminal Justice System (1983)

Resolution on Crime and Administration of Justice (1971)

Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism (CSA) Resolutions:
In its 1994 resolution on "Crime," the CSA resolved to oppose mandatory minimum sentences and "three strikes" laws.

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