NOTE ON “CRIMINAL” I have moved away from using the term “criminal.” This term implies that there are inherently bad people who commit crimes. This implication substantiates our criminal punishment system: that bad people must be locked away. But what about people who occasionally do bad things? And what if they do bad things largely as a result of bad conditions? Like poverty. Like the easy availability of guns. Like toxic masculinity. Should we be locking people away? Or should we be locking away the bad conditions?
