ABSTRACT
In the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, voters in several jurisdictions across the country elected a cadre of reform-minded candidates to the Office of District Attorney. Nowhere was this trend more pronounced than in Philadelphia where Larry Krasner, a veteran civil rights attorney with no prior prosecutorial experience, pledged to bring a definitive end mass incarceration and policies associated with the War on Drugs. In this chapter, I discuss my work as an advisor to his campaign and identify the myriad contributions that public criminologists can make toward shaping and informing the institutional policies and practices of the criminal justice system.
