Although the use of person-centered language has increased in recent years, its usage
remains limited within the field of criminal justice, wherein terms such as ex-offender are …

Across the US, policy makers are enacting criminal justice reform while limiting many of
those reforms to low-level, non-violent offenders. Given the power the public wields in …

In any given year, more than 600,000 inmates are released from prisons into communities
across the United States. Former prisoners face countless economic, social, and …

Public opinion is doubly important for reintegration, as it shapes both the policy and the
stigma environments that people with criminal records must face. Nowhere are the policy …

Beliefs about race, especially racial resentment, are key predictors of public support for
capital punishment and punitiveness generally. Drawing on a conceptual innovation by …

This chapter provides a roadmap of where America has been and where it is now
concerning attitudes about crime and justice. It reviews the punitive sentiments in the United …

Much has been written about “American exceptionalism” in punishment (D. Garland, 2020;
Reitz, 2017). Treatise typically focus on mass incarceration and mass community …

Despite recent reforms limiting or eliminating cash bail for less serious crimes, we know little
about public support for pretrial detention. To help fill this gap, we embedded offense …

Although jurisdictions across the US have implemented pretrial justice reforms with varying
support from lawmakers across the political divide, there is limited research exploring public …

In the era of increasing support for rehabilitation, an often-overlooked question is how the
public recognizes when someone is rehabilitated. The current study uses experimentally …