James M Binnall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Binnall |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Binnall |
| SIGNATURE | BINNALL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4706-9393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion
In the United States, a felony criminal conviction often reduces or eliminates opportunities to take part in civic and social life. One such record-based restriction impacts juror eligibility for those with a felony criminal history. In 2020, the Governor of Iowa began automatically restoring the civil rights of those convicted of a felony upon completion of their sentence, creating a new carceral status and thus, offering an optimal context to e…
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy
Despite prior negative experiences with the law and licensure barriers, individuals with conviction histories are increasingly seeking entry into the legal profession. To understand their unique educational journeys from a joint stigma and legal consciousness perspective, we conducted in-depth interviews with prospective, current, and former law students with criminal convictions. Findings reveal that early disadvantage and subsequent system invo…
Criminal history inquiries and minority threat in the legal profession: An analysis of law school and state bar admission applications
While all but one U.S. law school and every state bar ask about criminal history on their admissions application, such inquiries vary considerably in the depth of information sought. One potential explanation for variations in the depth of criminal history inquiries among law schools and state bars relates to minority threat dynamics. Drawing on data quantifying the depth of criminal history inquiries for 190 ABA‐approved law schools and all stat…
What Can the Legal Profession Do For Us? Formerly Incarcerated Attorneys and the Practice of Law as a Strengths-Based Endeavour
In recent years, the concept of strengths-based reentry has gained increased attention from scholars and commentators.Proponents of the strengths-based paradigm argue that the formerly incarcerated are far more than a collection of needs and risks.Rather, we bring unique skills to the reentry process that can be utilized to engage in generative activities that serve to diminish the stigma of a criminal history and to promote post-release success.…
They’re just different: The bifurcation of public attitudes toward felon-jurors convicted of violent offenses
Taking Roll: College Students’ Views of Their Formerly Incarcerated Classmates
For those with a criminal history, higher education can facilitate successful reentry and desistance from crime. Still, a number of obstacles discourage the pursuit of higher education by the formerly incarcerated. One such obstacle is the prevalence of stigmatization and discrimination toward those with criminal justice system involvement on college campuses. Nonetheless, there is a lack of research on how college students conceive of their form…
Public perceptions of felon-juror exclusion: An exploratory study
Despite the pervasiveness of felon-juror exclusion, this is the first study to systematically explore public opinions about the exclusion of convicted felons from voting and jury service. While results from 815 Californians revealed greater support for felon-voters than for felon-jurors, a majority opposed felon-juror exclusion and rejected the rationales for doing so. Findings also revealed stark ideological divides, as conservatives were less l…
Pippa Holloway, Living in Infamy: Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship
Pippa Holloway’s Living in Infamy is a thoroughly researched and concisely written account of the history of felon-voter disenfranchisement in America. Holloway succinctly weaves together the origins of and motivations for the practice of banishing convicted felons from the voting booth. The author’s argument turns on the definition and use of “infamy,” suggesting that wealthy, white political leaders in the South used the label to categorize and…
Summonsing Criminal Desistance: Convicted Felons' Perspectives on Jury Service
This exploratory study is the first to examine how convicted felons view the jury process and their role in that process. Data derived from interviews with former and prospective felon-jurors in Maine, the only US jurisdiction that does not restrict a convicted felon's opportunity to serve as a juror, reveal that participants displayed an idealized view of jury service, stressing a commitment to serve conscientiously. Additionally, inclusion in t…
A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service
In the United States, a vast majority of jurisdictions statutorily exclude convicted felons from jury service. Justifying these exclusions, lawmakers and courts often cite the inherent bias rationale, which holds that convicted felons harbor a prodefense/antiprosecution pretrial bias that would jeopardize the impartiality of the jury process. The inherent bias rationale has never been the subject of empirical analysis. Instead, authorities seemin…
A jury of none: An essay on the last acceptable form of civic banishment
Though many socio-legal scholars have criticized those measures that deny convicted felons the right to vote, few have challenged the statutes that withhold a convicted felon’s opportunity to sit on a jury. A majority of US jurisdictions bar felons from jury service permanently, creating a class of citizens defined and punished by the criminal justice system but unable to impact its function. This essay considers the invisibility of felon jury ex…
Summonsing Criminal Desistance: Convicted Felons' Perspectives on Jury Service
This exploratory study is the first to examine how convicted felons view the jury process and their role in that process. Data derived from interviews with former and prospective felon-jurors in Maine, the only US jurisdiction that does not restrict a convicted felon's opportunity to serve as a juror, reveal that participants displayed an idealized view of jury service, stressing a commitment to serve conscientiously. Additionally, inclusion in t…
A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service
In the United States, a vast majority of jurisdictions statutorily exclude convicted felons from jury service. Justifying these exclusions, lawmakers and courts often cite the inherent bias rationale, which holds that convicted felons harbor a prodefense/antiprosecution pretrial bias that would jeopardize the impartiality of the jury process. The inherent bias rationale has never been the subject of empirical analysis. Instead, authorities seemin…
Public perceptions of felon-juror exclusion: An exploratory study
Despite the pervasiveness of felon-juror exclusion, this is the first study to systematically explore public opinions about the exclusion of convicted felons from voting and jury service. While results from 815 Californians revealed greater support for felon-voters than for felon-jurors, a majority opposed felon-juror exclusion and rejected the rationales for doing so. Findings also revealed stark ideological divides, as conservatives were less l…
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy
Despite prior negative experiences with the law and licensure barriers, individuals with conviction histories are increasingly seeking entry into the legal profession. To understand their unique educational journeys from a joint stigma and legal consciousness perspective, we conducted in-depth interviews with prospective, current, and former law students with criminal convictions. Findings reveal that early disadvantage and subsequent system invo…
A jury of none: An essay on the last acceptable form of civic banishment
Though many socio-legal scholars have criticized those measures that deny convicted felons the right to vote, few have challenged the statutes that withhold a convicted felon’s opportunity to sit on a jury. A majority of US jurisdictions bar felons from jury service permanently, creating a class of citizens defined and punished by the criminal justice system but unable to impact its function. This essay considers the invisibility of felon jury ex…
A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service
In the United States, a vast majority of jurisdictions statutorily exclude convicted felons from jury service. Justifying these exclusions, lawmakers and courts often cite the inherent bias rationale, which holds that convicted felons harbor a prodefense/antiprosecution pretrial bias that would jeopardize the impartiality of the jury process. The inherent bias rationale has never been the subject of empirical analysis. Instead, authorities seemin…
Summonsing Criminal Desistance: Convicted Felons' Perspectives on Jury Service
This exploratory study is the first to examine how convicted felons view the jury process and their role in that process. Data derived from interviews with former and prospective felon-jurors in Maine, the only US jurisdiction that does not restrict a convicted felon's opportunity to serve as a juror, reveal that participants displayed an idealized view of jury service, stressing a commitment to serve conscientiously. Additionally, inclusion in t…
Pippa Holloway, Living in Infamy: Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship
Pippa Holloway’s Living in Infamy is a thoroughly researched and concisely written account of the history of felon-voter disenfranchisement in America. Holloway succinctly weaves together the origins of and motivations for the practice of banishing convicted felons from the voting booth. The author’s argument turns on the definition and use of “infamy,” suggesting that wealthy, white political leaders in the South used the label to categorize and…
Public perceptions of felon-juror exclusion: An exploratory study
Despite the pervasiveness of felon-juror exclusion, this is the first study to systematically explore public opinions about the exclusion of convicted felons from voting and jury service. While results from 815 Californians revealed greater support for felon-voters than for felon-jurors, a majority opposed felon-juror exclusion and rejected the rationales for doing so. Findings also revealed stark ideological divides, as conservatives were less l…
They’re just different: The bifurcation of public attitudes toward felon-jurors convicted of violent offenses
Taking Roll: College Students’ Views of Their Formerly Incarcerated Classmates
For those with a criminal history, higher education can facilitate successful reentry and desistance from crime. Still, a number of obstacles discourage the pursuit of higher education by the formerly incarcerated. One such obstacle is the prevalence of stigmatization and discrimination toward those with criminal justice system involvement on college campuses. Nonetheless, there is a lack of research on how college students conceive of their form…
What Can the Legal Profession Do For Us? Formerly Incarcerated Attorneys and the Practice of Law as a Strengths-Based Endeavour
In recent years, the concept of strengths-based reentry has gained increased attention from scholars and commentators.Proponents of the strengths-based paradigm argue that the formerly incarcerated are far more than a collection of needs and risks.Rather, we bring unique skills to the reentry process that can be utilized to engage in generative activities that serve to diminish the stigma of a criminal history and to promote post-release success.…
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy
Despite prior negative experiences with the law and licensure barriers, individuals with conviction histories are increasingly seeking entry into the legal profession. To understand their unique educational journeys from a joint stigma and legal consciousness perspective, we conducted in-depth interviews with prospective, current, and former law students with criminal convictions. Findings reveal that early disadvantage and subsequent system invo…
Criminal history inquiries and minority threat in the legal profession: An analysis of law school and state bar admission applications
While all but one U.S. law school and every state bar ask about criminal history on their admissions application, such inquiries vary considerably in the depth of information sought. One potential explanation for variations in the depth of criminal history inquiries among law schools and state bars relates to minority threat dynamics. Drawing on data quantifying the depth of criminal history inquiries for 190 ABA‐approved law schools and all stat…
Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion
In the United States, a felony criminal conviction often reduces or eliminates opportunities to take part in civic and social life. One such record-based restriction impacts juror eligibility for those with a felony criminal history. In 2020, the Governor of Iowa began automatically restoring the civil rights of those convicted of a felony upon completion of their sentence, creating a new carceral status and thus, offering an optimal context to e…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Jury (7 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)