ABSTRACT
Many injustices related to the Criminal justice systems (CJS) will require social change to remedy. Although crime has been seen as a pressing social issue in the United States since the 1960s, it is seldom oriented to as a social problem. Beyond the prison system, there are just as many differences evident between the United States and Denmark on a national level. The example of Denmark's prison system can function not just as a model of creating a CJS that can facilitate social change. Denmark has extremely low income inequality, a strong social welfare state that ensures citizens a high standard of living, and a far more ethnically homogenous society than the United States. Despite the CJS itself not being an agent of social change, there are many possible avenues to pursue social change within the CJS. Even entry-level CJS practitioners have gained insider access to government agencies that are fairly closed off from the public.
