Economic Criminal Justice Reform: States Set National Policy Agenda By Kenneth R. Bazinet, Collective Consulting (C2), Partner Crime doesn’t pay, as the saying goes, but the taxpayers certainly do, as everyone knows. With a fiscal breaking point in sight and scant return on the investment, the government, and voters, are finally admitting that our expensive and disparate criminal justice system is saddled with ineffective laws and practices that are draining state and local