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Twenty Million Angry Men

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Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do fel...
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  • 16 February 2021
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Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.
 
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 16 February 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520379169
Format: Hardcover
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"Not only is Twenty Million Angry Men, a quick read, but it is well written. The book reviews and contextualizes the most important scholarship that has been done on the subject of felon juror exclusion. . . . Much like the field of convict criminology, felon-juror research demonstrates how previously convicted people can make a positive contribution to understanding the subtleties of the criminal justice process that lay people often overlook."
James M. Binnall is an attorney and Associate Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach.
Acknowledgments

Introduction 
1 • Framing the Issue
2 • Rotten to the Core?
3 • Honor Among Thieves
4 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part I
5 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part II
6 • Criminal-Desistance Summoned
7 • A Community Change Agent
8 • A Healthy Ambivalence
Conclusion 

Epilogue
Appendix A 
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes 
References
Index