In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
This journal article examines how to protect the benefits for youth of destroying records, while still ensuring that researchers, advocates, and decis...
This report presents statistics on both pre-prison and post-prison employment and median earnings, differentiated by age, sex, race and ethnicity, mos...
According to this journal article published in the Harvard Law Review, laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of ...
In this paper, from the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, the authors investigate the mechanisms whereby the local and distal in...
This bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics presents national trends among state and federal prison inmates from ...
This brief explores children’s behaviors when a father is incarcerated and when the father is released, examining whether the negative child outcomes ...