In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) offers a broader discussion, derived from an NIJ-hosted webinar, of the difficulty of clea...
Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
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 recently conducted an empirical analysis of record clearing that they believe has made important inroads into what is known about expunge...
In an effort to argue for automatic pardons, this paper out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Connecticut'...