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...
As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
This article, from the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, addresses the problems faced by individuals who have been harmed by the continued availa...
This article, from the Fordham Law Review, argues that scholarly discussions related to prosecutorial discretion need to extend their focus beyond the...
This Article, from the Howard Law Journal, challenges the conventional wisdom that public access and dissemination of criminal history information rai...
This paper, from the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, begins by drawing on theories of ascription, stigma, and cumulative advantage/disadvantage a...