ABSTRACT
The concept of choice points as a decision-making framework is introduced as an approach to advance equity and counteract the implicit and explicit biases that are the result of administrative decisions made within organizations. Choice points are explained as a strategy to promote the institutionalization of equity within the decision-making processes of public organizations. Choice points within the criminal legal system where decision-making may produce inequities include instances of enforcing laws, adjudication and sentencing, and jail and prison custody. Leaders of public agencies must ensure that they and the individuals reporting to them understand the significance of choice points as a decision-making process. James. H. Svara and J. R. Brunet’s framework seeks to address a serious critique of social equity by providing not only a way to conceptualize social equity through various dimensions but ways to operationalize it as well.
