A Theory of Socio-Political Effects of Mass Incarceration on the United States: Mass Correctional Reform Equals Mass Pro-Social Reform

• In Event: Resistance to Injustice: Convict Criminology's role in an Erratic Present and Uncertain Future

Abstract

Mass incarceration incapacitates social productivity and limits opportunity for a large percentage of American citizens, including convicts, ex-convicts, and the family members of convicts and ex-convicts. Enacting policy which serves to de-stigmatize and re-integrate the formerly incarcerated into general population as fully restored citizens will function to break down obstacles to social equality, increasing access to education, employment, opportunity structures, and the reduction of negative social stigmas.

Author

• Grant Tietjen, St. Ambrose University