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MOST U.S. EMPLOYERS CONDUCT BACKGROUND CHECKS AS A MATTER OF ROUTINE AND USE THEM IN THE PROCESS OF CANDIDATE SELECTION. FOR THE 80 MILLION ADULTS WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD - AND ESPECIALLY THE 20 MILLION WITH A CONVICTION CLASSIFIED AS FELONY - THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN DEVASTATING.
Through the lens of work, the Afterlives of Conviction Project documents the human impact of a criminal conviction and explores the systems, policies and logics that uphold the discriminatory use of criminal records.
EXPLORE LIVED EXPERIENCES
Numbers are essential for understanding the scope and contours of punishment practices, but tell us little about how things work in daily practice, how policies are understood and implemented on the ground, or how they feel to those experiencing them. Ethnography tacks back and forth between lived realities, broad contexts and long histories to make sense of complex phenomena.
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EXPLORE THE RESEARCH DIGEST
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The research digest aims to make scholarly research accessible by summarizing key findings, with an eye toward arguments that might be useful to organizers, advocates and educators. Where possible, the summaries link to a source where full articles/books can be accessed for free.
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