ABSTRACT
Concepts like social justice, environmental justice, and racial justice spring readily to the lips of activists and reformers, and most of us could probably produce a thumbnail sketch or working definition of them. Some are even invoked by name in attempted legislation. For example, the Racial Justice Act, attached to Bill Clinton’s first anticrime bill (and shot down in Congress in 1994), sought to address the scandalously disproportionate number of African American males on death row.
