Arrow, Kenneth J. (1951, 2nd ed., 1963) Social Choice and Individual Values. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01364-7
In this book writer wrote tha Most states in the United States disenfranchise incarcerated felons as well as nonincarcerated felons on probation or parole
Boix, Carles (1999). Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies. American Political Science Review 93, 609-624.
In this book writer explains that Felon disenfranchisement is more common in the United States than in other democratic countries, where it is typically restricted to imprisoned felons for the duration of incarceration.