In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
This report, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), summari...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released this white paper examining the intersection between community supervision and the human service need...
The Justice-Involved Veterans Compendium Project from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is a series of publications intended to assist corre...
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...
The long-term, sometimes lifelong, impact of a criminal record often keeps many qualified people from obtaining employment and accessing housing, hi...