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Annual review of law and social science, 2017-11, Vol.13, p.1
Ort / Verlag
Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Although crime control and prisons have been featured prominently in electoral campaigns, Barack Obama is the only sitting president to have visited a prison and engaged in conversation with currently and formerly incarcerated people, a profoundly disenfranchised constituency in the United States. This article examines the extent to which this population and its concerns have been excluded from American electoral politics. Starting with the value debate, the essay examines the scope of felon disenfranchisement in the United States, examining comparative perspectives, policies in states that allow voting within prisons, and eligibility to run for office with a criminal record. The essay also examines the problematic underlying issue of racial exclusion via felon disenfranchisement; the impact of disenfranchisement on civic engagement and on recidivism; and the perspectives of disenfranchised, formerly incarcerated people. The essay ends with grim predictions about this constituency in the upcoming Trump administration.