NCJ Number
238861
Editor(s)
Marc Mauer
Date Published
March 2012
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This annotated bibliography provides an overview of the scholarship on felony disenfranchisement over the past two decades.
Abstract
Two dozen States have enacted various policy and practice reforms designed to either reduce the number of persons disenfranchised or remove some of the barriers to a restoration of the right to vote. Along with this movement has come a new generation of scholarship on the issue of felony disenfranchisement. A wealth of studies and analyses have been produced in recent years that have examined disenfranchisement from a variety of perspectives, i.e., law, social science, history, and journalism. Overall, these writings provide new estimates of the statistical impact of disenfranchisement, assess legal and moral perspectives on the policy, and place the issue in a comparative international context. The bibliography lists just over 100 publications. The listings are categorized according to type of publication, i.e., journal article or book.