ABSTRACT
Most crimes represent injustice in some way, and the majority of these injustices can be understood at the individual level. A few types of crime, however, represent broader injustices that reach beyond the individuals involved in the crime. When crimes can be linked to broader inequalities or injustices, they become a social justice issue. This chapter focuses on injustices that are created within and by the criminal justice systems (CJSs), rather than injustices that are dealt with (to varying degrees) by the CJS. A major area of injustice within the CJS is juvenile justice. The experience of detention can also produce grave injustices for juveniles. One of the starkest examples of injustice within criminal justice comes from the examination of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) with all components of the CJS. The chapter examines how DMC with the CJS can also be an issue of justice in the context surrounding the CJS.
