Justice is the nominal goal of the cluster of institutions we call the ‘criminal justice system’, and these institutions often equate the delivery of justice with the delivery of punishment. Many criminologists and legal theorists, however, maintain that this system fails to do what it claims to, and it is becoming increasingly common to term it the ‘criminal legal system’. This module asks the question ‘Can the institutional structures we call the criminal justice system deliver the form of justice we ask them to, and are there alternative models of justice or organisational structures which we could turn to instead?’ The module is delivered in two sections. Section one asks ‘Is there justice in criminal justice’, and explores how the attempt to pursue justice flows through, and the barriers to justice which exist within, institutions and processes such as the police, sentencing, prisons, and parole. Section Two explores justice models and structures that exist outside the traditional penal state. The precise topics covered will vary with teaching availability but may include topics such as ecojustice, military justice, transitional justice, and victims’ justice.