Each year, nearly two million women are released from prison or jail. These women experience unique challenges during their reentry — the period of tr...
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 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...