“Maximum Feasible Participation:” A Precedent for Social Change in the Twenty-First Century

• In Event: Policy Panel: History and Justice Reform: Sustaining Transformation through Reckoning

Abstract

As policymakers, scholars, and the public are increasingly recognizing, a transformation of the prevailing
domestic policies will be necessary to evolve from our current mass incarceration society. The real—and perhaps
the only—long-term solution requires a major infusion of resources and strategies that would empower residents
in overpoliced and underprotected communities to transform their own conditions on their own terms. The most
marginalized among us must have a more meaningful role in shaping the domestic programs that directly impact
their everyday lives, and legislation providing the necessary funding must be enacted to support those initiatives.

Author

• Elizabeth Hinton, Yale University