After Imprisonment : Special Issue.

Fornt Cover -- After Imprisonment: Special Issue -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- After Solitary Confinement: A New Era of Punishment? -- Genealogy of Reform -- Three Reform Paradigms: Political, Litigious, and Administrative -- Illinois: Penal Populism -- California: Adversarial Legalism -- Washington: Charismatic Leadership -- Conclusion: After Solitary? -- Notes -- References -- Planning for Precarity? Experiencing the Carceral Continuum of Imprisonment and Reentry -- Introduction -- After Imprisonment: A Conceptual Framing of Reentry -- "They Just Dropped Me Off": Reentry into Nowhere -- "Not Everybody Is That Lucky": The Variable Experiences of Reentry -- "Everything Is Difficult": Overcoming the Barriers to Reentry -- "I Tried to Forget": Coping with Carceral Experiences on the Outside -- "You Are Left to Your Devices": The Limits of the Responsibilized Penal Subject -- Conclusion: Impediments to Reentry and Institutions as Risk -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Case -- Banking on Rehab: Private Prison Vendors and the Reconfiguration of Mass Incarceration -- Canaries in a Coal Mine: How Brown vs Plata and ACP Failed Women Prisoners -- Brown vs Plata -- The Radical Possibilities of ACP -- The Same as It Ever Was? The GEO Group's "Reentry" Prison -- The Essence of the Disorder: The Disease Concept and Continuity of Care -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Collateral Consequence Conundrum: Comparative Genealogy, Current Trends, and Future Scenarios -- Introduction -- A Comparative Genealogy of Collateral Consequences -- Collateral Consequences in the American Penal State -- Definitional Issues -- The New Rise of Collateral Consequences -- "Don't You Recognize Punishment When You See It?": Collateral Consequences and the Role of the Courts.

US Courts: A Jurisprudence of Deference -- European Courts: An Anti-subversion Jurisprudence -- Discussion of Policy Proposals -- Collateral Consequences as Preventive Regulation -- Collateral Consequences as Part of the Sentencing Context -- Collateral Consequences as Formal Punishment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- "40 to Make Sure": Background Check Laws and the Endogenous Construction of Criminal Risk -- Background -- Data and Methods -- Loopholes and the Endogenous Construction of Criminal Risk -- Implied Loopholes -- Exploited Loopholes -- Exposed Loopholes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Transcripts Cited -- Statutes Cited -- SESSION LAWS CITED -- Churning Through The System: How People Engage With The Criminal Justice System When Faced With Short Sentences -- The Rabble Class and the Criminal Justice System -- Legal Cynicism among Incarcerated Populations -- Methods and Data -- Findings -- Probation, Addiction, and the Rabble Class -- Lingering Charges and Legal Cynicism: Probation, Open Cases, and Likely Suspects -- Pleading Guilty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Maximizing Charges: Overcriminalization and Prosecutorial Practices During the Crime Decline -- Literature Review -- Overcriminalization -- Prosecutorial Discretion and Practices -- Hypotheses -- Data and Methods -- Findings -- Overcriminalization -- Mandatory Minimums -- Plea Bargaining -- Changes to Political Economy and Reform Policy -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Excluded Counties by Dataset -- Top 40 Offenses in Nonviolent Other Category.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment. The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, overcriminalization, and mass incarceration.

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