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Criminal disenfranchisement reform in California A deviant case study
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The United States denies voting rights to ex-convicts, parolees, probationers and prisoners on a scale unmatched among democratic nations as mentioned in this paper, and state laws establishing voting eligibility vary markedly from state to state.Abstract:
The United States denies voting rights to ex-convicts, parolees, probationers and prisoners on a scale unmatched among democratic nations. State laws establishing voting eligibility vary markedly f...read more
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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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The Carceral State and the Politics of Punishment
TL;DR: In the USA, a staggering 7.2 million people are either incarcerated, on parole or probation, or under some other form of state supervision (Glaze et al., 2010).
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The past as prologue? Decarceration in California then and now
TL;DR: In the early 1970s, California Governor Ronald Reagan's second year in office, the imprisonment rate in the state's institutions was 146 per 100,000 residents as mentioned in this paper, a decrease of 34% and the lowest level of imprisonment since at least 1950.
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The Emergence of Penal Extremism in California: A Dynamic View of Institutional Structures and Political Processes
TL;DR: In a relatively short period, California lawmakers made a series of decisions that fundamentally transformed the state's approach to punishment and began a massive construction program that helped build one of the world's largest prison systems.
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Collateral Consequences in the American States
TL;DR: This article analyzed varying collateral-consequences policies (laws restricting the rights and privileges of people who have had contact with the criminal justice system, particularly those with conviction records) in American states.
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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment
Robert D. Benford,David A. Snow +1 more
TL;DR: The recent proliferation of research on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements.
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Ballot Manipulation and the "Menace of Negro Domination": Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the origins and development of state felon disenfranchisement provisions and found that large nonwhite prison populations increase the odds of passing restrictive laws, and, further, that prison and state racial composition may be linked to the adoption of reenfranchisement reforms.
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Beyond populist punitiveness
TL;DR: The authors argue that punitive attitudes exist alongside more rational and more reflective attitudes, and that attitudes are, at least in part, an artefact of the methodology used to discover them, but rather that public opinion is much more nuanced and contradictory than it appears from survey research.
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State Felon Disenfranchisement Policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine race-based explanations for felon disenfranchisement policies and conclude that the size of the minority population, parity in incarceration rates, and the degree of legislative professionalism are the primary explanatory factors of this policy.