The Kindness Factor: Disrupting the Structural Injustices of America's Criminal Justice System

• Main Author: Kwan, Kelly
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2018
• Subjects: kindness; compassion; criminal justice; Scandinavia; Accessibility; Criminal Law; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Ethics and Political Philosophy; Human Rights Law; Law and Race; Law Enforcement and Corrections; Legal; Prison Education and Reentry; Scandinavian Studies
• Online Access: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1189; http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2238&context=scripps_theses

Inspired by words of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in California and Denmark, this thesis critically analyzes the American criminal justice system and asks if critiques of the institution can be addressed and improved through the implementation of kindness and compassion within the walls of prison, itself.