A recent article titled “Expanding Our Understanding of Focal Concerns: Alternative Sentences, Race, and “Salvageability”” was published in Justice Quarterly. The article is by Miranda Galvin, PA Commission on Sentencing and CJRC Postdoctoral Scholar, and Jeffrey Ulmer, faculty affiliate and incoming CJRC director. The authors test “whether offender race, gender, and prior histories of substance use affect assessments of salvageability as indicated by prosecutor decisions to pre-screen offenders for admittance into an intensive rehabilitation.” Read the article here.