Episode 9: Mike Mueller-Smith on the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)

Mike Mueller-Smith talks about the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) -- a new source of administrative data -- and how criminal justice policy affects economic and social disparities in the United States.

"Criminal Justice in the US and Economic Inequality" by Michael G. Mueller-Smith and Keith Finlay. 

OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• "Correctional Populations in the United States, 2016" by Danielle Kaeble and Mary Cowhig.

• "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration" by Becky Pettit and Bruce Western.

• "The growth, scope, and spatial distribution of people with felony records in the united states, 1948–2010" by Sarah K. S. Shannon, Christopher Uggen, Jason Schnittker, Melissa Thompson, Sara Wakefield, and Michael Massoglia.

• "Fathers Behind Bars: The Impact of Incarceration on Family Formation" by Bruce Western and Sara McLanahan.

• "The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences" –National Research Council, Consensus Study Report.

• "Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment" by Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr.

• "The employability of ex-offenders: a field experiment in the Swedish labor market" by

  Ali M. Ahmed and Elisabeth Lång.

• "The Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment" by Christopher Uggen, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, Ebony Ruhland, and Hilary K. Whitham.