In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
The Alternatives and Reentry Strategic Plan, from the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC), is a multi-year blueprint that applies a whole-of-g...
According to this report from The Sentencing Project, laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. The report shows that, in 2022...
This article, published by The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), presents evidence-based approaches to improving housing strat...
Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
According to this report to Congress from the Reentry Coordination Council, each year, about 600,000 people in the United States enter prisons; and ...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This journal article examines how to protect the benefits for youth of destroying records, while still ensuring that researchers, advocates, and decis...
This Collateral Consequences Resource Center report is the first-ever comprehensive national survey of the period of time a person, who is otherwise e...