Individuals who have been incarcerated experience unparalleled health and economic
disparities. Stigma, defined as a social phenomenon in which labeling, separation, and …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

Movement between sequentially-held roles—role transition—has long attracted scholars'
attention for its ubiquity and importance in people's work-and non-work lives. In our …

A social psychological approach is used to examine stigma from the perspective of formerly
incarcerated persons. Three scales were constructed to assess 229 formerly incarcerated …

Successful community reentry and the criminological impact of incarceration may depend in
part on the attitudes (and consequent reactions) that prisoners encounter after release …

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political
conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former …

In the mid-1990s, the Jacob Wetterling Act and Megan's Law were passed, respectively,
formalizing the practice of registering sex offenders in publicly accessible, state-wide …

Although employment is central to successful reentry, formerly incarcerated people struggle
to find work because of criminal stigma, poor education, and sparse work histories. Prison …

Building on previous work which has conceptualized the embodied experience of
imprisonment as prison time 'inscribed'on the body, this article argues that the experience of …

In this paper, we explore how the stigmatization of place is transported to new destinations
and negotiated by those who carry it. Additionally, we discuss the implications of 'spatial …