By 1975, the long-standing rehabilitative ideal had collapsed, a demise that was sudden
and advocated by conservatives and liberals alike. Through the prism of the author's …

Morality is thought to underlie both ideological and punitive attitudes. In particular, moral
foundations research suggests that group-oriented moral concerns promote a conservative …

The sustained movement to “get tough” on crime, especially through mass imprisonment,
has prompted several prominent efforts to explain the public's harshness toward crime. From …

In 2009, Maruna and King presented results from a British survey showing that the public's
belief in the redeemability of people who committed offenses curbed their level of …

Research Summary Based on a 2013 survey of 1,001 likely voters in Texas, public support
for correctional reform in a “red state” was examined. Four major conclusions were revealed …

A confluence of factors—a perfect storm—interfered with the intractable rise of imprisonment
and contributed to the emergence of a new sensibility defining continued mass …

Community corrections in the twenty-first century faces three challenges: how to be an
alternative to imprisonment, how to be a conduit for reducing recidivism, and how to do less …

Scholars widely agree that the public is pragmatic about criminal justice. The empirical basis
for this conclusion is the failure in several previous studies to find a sizable negative …

Objective: To explore whether the impact of racial and ethnic pejorative stereotypes and
prejudice on White support for the death penalty changes over time. Methods: The data were …

Public stigma toward people with prison records hinders re-entry initiatives. Although it is
widely discussed in corrections, its measurement has been study specific. Based on existing …