by Eric J. Ellman | May 19, 2021
Last month, to coincide with Second Chances Month, the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform issued a report, A better path forward for criminal justice: Training and employment for correctional populations. Brookings and AEI are often at opposite...
by Eric J. Ellman | Feb 2, 2021
A number of advocates support ban-the-box laws, in spite of a lack of demonstrable evidence that these laws work, or contrary to evidence that they do more harm than good. Some reports commonly promoted by advocates include: Daly, Mariah L., Boxed Into a Corner: The...
by Eric J. Ellman | Feb 2, 2021
A paper from Evan K. Rose (U.C. Berkley) was published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Labor Economics in 2021, Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example, said that despite Seattle’s attempt in 2013...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jan 22, 2020
Walter Olsen, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, wrote a piece in January 2020, More Evidence That “Ban the Box” Laws Don’t Work, surveying academic criticism of ban-the-box laws that show either no or adverse...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jan 6, 2020
Ryan Sherrard is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Sherrard wrote a paper, ‘Ban the Box’ Policies and Criminal Recidivism (January 6, 2020). Sherrard’s paper was noted in an editorial in...
