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  • Handbook on Collaborating Across Differences in Sentencing and Corrections

    Process and Outcomes

    Series series The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series
    This volume offers a collection of chapters exploring a range of research collaborations within the field of sentencing and corrections, focusing on both process and results. Chapters cover partnerships between people and organizations with different trainings, backgrounds, and/or purposes, such as academics in different fields, practitioners, policymakers, and those with and without lived ... Read more

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    The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences

    **"I can think of no authors more qualified to research the complex impact of life sentences than Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. They have the expertise to track down the information that all citizens need to know and the skills to translate that research into accessible and powerful prose."—Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the WaterFrom the author of the classic ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Life

    The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences

    "I can think of no authors more qualified to research the complex impact of life sentences than Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. They have the expertise to track down the information that all citizens need to know and the skills to translate that research into accessible and powerful prose."—Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the WaterFrom the author of the classic ... Read more

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  • A Return to Justice

    Rethinking our Approach to Juveniles in the System

    by Ashley Nellis ...
    Juveniles who commit crimes often find themselves in court systems that do not account for their young age, but it wasn’t always this way. The original aim of a separate juvenile justice system was to treat young offenders as the children they were, considering their unique child status and amenability for reform. Now, after years punishing young offenders as if they were adults, slowly the ... Read more

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