Second, it is at the same time important to note that the progressive turn that criminal justice policy has taken in recent years—one that has seen developments like drug decriminalization, early prisoner release programs, and greater access to correctional treatment (Wright and Rosky 2011; Lovins and Latessa 2018; Ward, Lucas, and Murphy 2019)—is also occurring in the face of what might be called a “get tough echo.” For instance, conservatives still champion the idea that the “drug problem” can be solved through either incarceration (Welch 2019) or the speedy execution of drug dealers (Slisco 2020), and that problems like gun and gang violence would be eradicated if we just “got tougher” (Janssen 2017; Tanfani 2017). Even liberals have appropriated the threat-based language of deterrence theory and have advocated for policies based on the “swift and certain” properties of criminal sanctions (Hawken and Kleiman 2009; Bartels 2016; Kleiman 2016). It is therefore critical that both scholars and policy makers resist becoming complacent about progressive policy change and that they continue to push back against the notion that we can punish our way out of crime.