Traci Burch is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and research professor at the American Bar Association. She is coauthor of Creating a New Racial Order. She lives in Chicago.

"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"

Traci Burch is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and research professor at the American Bar Association. She is coauthor of Creating a New Racial Order. She lives in Chicago.

"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"

Traci Burch is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and research professor at the American Bar Association. She is coauthor of Creating a New Racial Order. She lives in Chicago.

"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"