Objectives: In October 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) passed a
resolution addressing ways psychologists could work to dismantle systemic racism in …

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 …

In the five decades since African Americans won their civil rights, hundreds of thousands
have lost their liberty. Blacks now make up a larger portion of the prison population than they …

Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Editor's Choice
Nautilus Award Winner “A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil …

Borrowing from its English forebears, the United States once had a form of punishment
called civil death. Civil death extinguished most civil rights of a person convicted of a crime …

MOST ACADEMICS come to criminal record issues via their commitment to offender
rehabilitation and reentry. While I share that concern, I was drawn to criminal rec ords via …

Although the right to trial by jury is enshrined in the US Constitution, in recent years both
criminal and civil juries have been criticized as incompetent, biased, and irresponsible. For …

Convicted felons face both legal and informal barriers to becoming productive citizens at
work, responsible citizens in family life, and active citizens in their communities. As criminal …

The rules and practices of criminal procedure assume a clean separation between the
interests of the public and the interests of the lone defendant who stands accused. Even the …

Current scholarship has explored how the carceral state governs and regulates populations.
This literature has focused on prison and on the wide-reaching collateral consequences of a …