The Afterlives of Conviction Project, led by Professor Melissa Burch, recently launched a new website that aims to deepen understanding of the experience of living with a criminal record in the United States. In collaboration with organizations working to end criminal records exclusion, it identifies pivot points between academia and on-the-ground work and strives to make scholarly data and concepts available to organizers, educators, and policymakers in engaging and useful ways. The sites hosts many different kinds of publications and resources within the website, such as a 3-part ethnographic book series, a comic about the rise of criminal background screening, and a research digest annotating more than 100 scholarly sources in plain language for organizers. To learn more, please visit the Afterlives of Conviction website.
Afterlives of Conviction Team Unveils Project Website
