This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making,
capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates. It also …

Between 1980 and 2007, probation rates in the United States skyrocketed alongside
imprisonment rates; since 2007, both forms of criminal justice control have declined in use …

Threat theory argues that states toughen criminal laws to repress the competitive power of
large minority groups. Yet, research on threat suffers from a poor understanding of why …

Despite a long line of scholarship on race and social control, evidence that incarceration can
be connected to slavery is difficult to provide. This study evaluates whether slavery had long …

Adefining characteristic of mass incarceration is the overwhelming racial disparity in US
prison populations. Yet, little research has examined the role of public attitudes in the growth …

During the era of mass incarceration, a history of felony convictions and imprisonment
imposes legal and extra-legal sanctions that strip individuals of rights—what Miller and …

The growth of the carceral state over the last few decades has been remarkable, with
millions of Americans in prison, jail, on parole or probation. Political science explanations of …

State prison populations in the United States have been regularly declining since 2009, and,
at the end of 2014, the combined federal and state prison population was at its lowest level …

This manuscript uses data drawn from case studies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
and Michigan from 2000 to 2006 in order to examine how different states responded to …

Across the world, the most marginalised groups of society are overrepresented in prisons
and institutions of the criminal justice system. Besides racial and ethnic minorities, prisons …