In this publication, authors Brian Schaefer and Peter Kraska examined the federal court system's role in perpetuating and maintaining societal racial divisions through felony disenfranchisement laws. In Felon Disenfranchisement: The Judiciary's Role in Renegotiating Racial Divisions, the authors argue that the federal court system has gone to great lengths to deny the historical practice of racial containment through voting laws, utilizing the myth of "colorblind" justice and the dehumanization of individuals with felony convictions in order to legitimize felony disenfranchisement.