It's Official: DOJ Says There Are No Criminals Because Victimology!

Well, given the criminal left's constant excuse-making victimology, which has always insisted that there are no real crimes nor criminals, because we're all really only ever helpless victims of inevitable forces, it had to "inevitably" lead to this:

(From here and here):

DOJ Replaces 'Criminal' With 'Justice-Involved Individual'

Nick Kangadis | May 3, 2016 4:22pm ET

In an instance where we all need to stop for a second, sit back and think about the government monster called “political correctness” that has been allowed to grow, this episode of PC Culture is being brought to you by the good people at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Keep the word “justice” in mind.

Apparently the DOJ has been phasing out the use of the word “criminal” to describe well, criminals.

On the DOJ website the newer term, “justice-involved individual,” can be traced back to 2009.

 However, the term has seen more and more daylight over the last couple of years.

This is from a DOJ release on April 25:

In an effort to help young people involved in the justice system find jobs and housing, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced $1.75 million for Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and nonprofit legal service organizations to address the challenges justice-involved individuals face when trying to find work and a place to call home.

Even U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch got in on the action:

The future of our nation depends upon the future of our young people – including young people who have become involved with our justice system. By helping justice-involved youth find decent jobs and stable housing after they return home, these critical grants provide a foundation for a fresh start and offer a path towards productivity and purpose.  In the months ahead, the Department of Justice will continue helping justice-involved youth enrich their lives and improve our country.

Lynch can’t even say that youths have broken the law. Instead she uses the phrase, “young people who have become involved with our justice system.”

Didn’t being involved in the justice system used to mean something positive? Young people being involved used to mean that they were positively trying to affect society.

That is precisely what the PC Police want you to believe with their culture of sugarcoating everything. Despite someone breaking the law, no one should hold it against them, and they should be viewed in a positive light no matter what.

This directive coincides with President Obama’s repeated loosening of the reigns concerning convicts. Just recently, Obama changed the term “solitary confinement” to “restrictive housing” when he directed “the heads of executive departments and agencies” to limit the use of the practice.
For the sake of mocking “updated” terms like “justice-involved individuals" (because how could anyone not mock something like this?) here is a list of five possible “PC” phrases that MRCTV thinks would appease these “social justice warriors.”

But if the government steals these phrases as alternatives to the original terminology, don’t blame us.

• Murderer: Life-Ending Specialist
• Burglar/Thief: Need-Based Borrowing
• Arsonist: Fire Enthusiast
• Rioting: Spirited Block Party
• Vandal: Aspiring Artist

It gets worse - convicts and felons are no longer to be referred to as same, either! Instead, they will be from now on referred to as: “person who committed a crime,” and “individual who was incarcerated.”

DOJ to nix ‘felon,’ ‘convict’ terms deemed stigmatizing

By Cody Derespina

 Published May 05, 2016 

 FoxNews.com

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A prisoner stands at his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. (AP)

A Justice Department division will no longer refer to people released from prison as “felons” or “convicts” because of the stigmatizing effects of the terms, an agency official announced in a Washington Post editorial Wednesday.

Instead, Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason said the “disparaging labels” will be replaced by “person who committed a crime” or “individual who was incarcerated.” The new lexicon is set to be utilized in “speeches, solicitations, website content and social media posts” emanating from the Office of Justice Programs.

“I have come to believe that we have a responsibility to reduce not only the physical but also the psychological barriers to reintegration,” Mason wrote. “The labels we affix to those who have served time can drain their sense of self-worth and perpetuate a cycle of crime, the very thing re-entry programs are designed to prevent.”

OJP is responsible for research and development efforts to fight crime, but takes no direct law enforcement actions. The agency also works with state and local authorities.

But not everyone is on board with the shift in vernacular.

J. Christian Adams, an attorney and ex-DOJ official, said the move is the latest attempt by the Obama administration “to destigmatize the most abhorrent behavior.” Referring to ex-cons as “felons” is a good thing, Adams told FoxNews.com.

“It helps people make important decisions about hiring, about renting, about associating with people who have shown a proclivity to break the law,” he said. “Shame is not a bad thing. It’s helped civilization rise. And people who cannot be trusted, who have committed violent crimes in the past, there’s nothing wrong with calling them exactly what they are – and that is felons.”

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Karol Mason is the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. (ojp.gov)

Mason, who has headed OJP since 2013, wrote the editorial on the heels of National Re-entry Week, last week’s attempt to bring attention to the plight of those recently released from prison. A set of measures to make it easier for ex-cons to obtain state IDs once released from jail was announced in April as part of the initiatives.

The American Bar Association documented nearly 50,000 “collateral consequences of criminal convictions” during a four-year period, Mason wrote, citing penalties such as employment and voting issues that plague ex-prisoners years after they’ve been released. Experts believe that number may be low, given that local ordinances also often present barriers for ex-cons to gaining employment.

“Our words have power,” Mason wrote. “They shape and color our estimations and judgments. They can build up or tear down.”

The OJP move is certainly not the first time officials have tried to rebrand convicts in an attempt to make their return to civilian life easier. In October 2013, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter proposed amending the city code to replace “ex-offender” with “returning citizen.” He had already issued an executive order making the language swap mandatory for city employees.

Adams said it may be easy to shift the recent tide of softening language if a leader with “courage” is in place. But he’s not necessarily optimistic about the prospects.

“In the past this has been a one way ratchet, that every time these attempts to delegitimize American society are put in place, nobody has the courage to reverse them,” he said. “They don’t want to be criticized.”