Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented and widespread. The
present review examines racial disparities in three areas of the system: policing, prison …

The May 2015 release of the report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
highlighted a fundamental change in the issues dominating discussions about policing in …

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment.
Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

Scholarship on the expansion of the US carceral state has primarily focused on
imprisonment rates. Yet the majority of adults under formal criminal justice control are on …

Objectives: The transition to adulthood can be challenging, especially for children of
incarcerated parents. Drawing on reentry and life-course scholarship, we argue that parental …

This chapter provides an overview of desistance scholarship, surveying some of the major
theoretical and empirical explanations of how and why people stop offending, and exploring …

Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented and widespread. The
present review examines racial disparities in three areas of the system: policing, prison …

Recidivism rates after release from prison are high worldwide. While research has not
shown much promise in the ability of incarceration to reduce the risk of reoffending, little …

A justification for lengthier stays in prison stems from from belief that spending more time in
prison reduces recidivism. Extant studies, however, have provided limited evidence for that …