In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

A selection of panel studies appearing in the American Sociological Review and the
American Journal of Sociology between 1990 and 2003 shows that sociologists have been …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment
discourages further criminal behavior, with reoffense probabilities falling by 29 percentage …

The steep rise in US criminal punishment in recent decades has spurred scholarship on the
collateral consequences of imprisonment for individuals, families, and communities. Several …

Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the United States each year with 70,000 in detention
on any given day, yet little is known about whether such a penalty deters future crime or …

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on
criminalized communities of color The US Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law …

The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that
have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It then explains these …

With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners
released each year, the large and growing number of men being processed through the …

This book—arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date—
analyzes data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were …