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Maze and Gears: Using Explanatory Metaphors to Increase Public Understanding of the Criminal Justice System and its Reform

How can we frame the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, and other justice reform issues, in ways that gain mainstream traction? Metaphors can help.
Author
Nat Kendall-Taylor
Published
August 8, 2013
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This report presents the results of metaphor research using qualitative and quantitative methods with approximately 1,300 members of the general public. This research yielded two Explanatory Metaphors — The Justice Maze and Justice Gears — that help advance public understanding of structural problems in the criminal justice system and the need for reform to address these problems.

Issues
Justice Reform Racial Justice
Countries
United States

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