News & Resources

Internal Exile: Collateral Consequences of Conviction in Federal Laws and Regulations
ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions (Jan. 2009)

Summary of U.S. Sex Offender Registration Laws
Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (2018)

After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry
Legal Action Center (2009)

Vermont Compilation of Collateral Consequences
Collateral Consequences Resource Center (2017)

Wisconsin Compilation of Collateral Consequences
Collateral Consequences Resource Center (2017)

California Compilation of Collateral Consequences
Collateral Consequences Resource Center (2017)

The Consequences of Conviction – Sanctions Beyond the Sentence Under Colorado Law
Colorado State Public Defender (2014)

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in the District of Columbia: A Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers
Community Reentry Program & Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (2010)

The Hidden Impact of a Criminal Conviction: A Brief Overview of Collateral Consequences in Alaska
Deborah Periman (2007)

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction in Arizona
Kate Adamson et al. (2005)

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: A Legal Outline for Michigan
Miriam Aukerman, Reentry Law Project, Legal Aid of Western Michigan (2008)

Civil Impacts of Criminal Convictions under Ohio Law (CIVICC) Database
Ohio Justice & Policy Center

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Maryland
Reentry of Ex-Offenders Clinic, University of Maryland School of Law (2007)

Collateral Consequences of Felony Convictions Established in the Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Sara M. Caudill and Ashley England-Huff, 35 N. Ky. L. Rev. 453 (2008)

Statutory Restrictions on Convicted Felons
Texas State Law Library (2013)

Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction
Tracey W. Brame Ed., ICLE (2012)

Kentucky’s Statutory Collateral Consequences from Felony Convictions: A Practitioner’s Guide
Troy B. Daniels, Dawn L. Danley-Nichols, Kate R. Morgan and Bryce C. Roades, 35 N. Ky. L. Rev. 413 (2008)

Collateral Consequences Assessment Tool (C-CAT) Database
University of North Carolina School of Government

Beyond the Conviction: What Defense Attorneys in Washington Need to Know About Collateral Consequences
Washington Defender Association (2013)

Civil Consequences of Conviction – The Impact of Criminal Records under Wisconsin Law
Wisconsin State Public Defender (2013)

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Persons
American Bar Association (June 2004)

Model Penal Code: Sentencing
American Law Institute (2017)

Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
EEOC Enforcement Guidance No. 915.002 (Apr. 25, 2012)

Model Collateral Consequences in Occupational Licensing Act
Institute for Justice (2018)

Best Practices and Model Policies: Creating a Fair Chance Policy
National Employment Law Project (April 2015)

Model State Licensing Law in Unlicensed & Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records
National Employment Law Project (April 2016)

Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals
U.S. Department of Education (2016)

Application of Fair Housing Act Standards to the Use of Criminal Records by Providers of Housing and Real Estate-Related Transactions
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2016)

Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
Uniform Law Commission (2010)

Collateral Consequences Resource Center
Collateral Consequences Resource Center

Clean Slate Clearinghouse
Council of State Governments Justice Center

Criminal Justice Resources
Legal Action Center

Restoration of Rights Project
Restoration of Rights Project

Collateral Consequences Resource List
Sentencing Resource Counsel Project (2010)

The Eternal Criminal Record
James B. Jacobs (2015)

But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
Jeremy Travis (2005)

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction: Law Policy & Practice
Margaret Love, Jenny Roberts, & Cecelia Klingele (2018)

Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Meda Chesney-Lind & Marc Mauer, eds. (2003)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness
Michelle Alexander (2010)

Beyond Punishment? A
Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction Zachary Hoskins (2019)

Justice Department Administration of the President’s Pardon Power:
A Case Study in Institutional Conflict of Interest Margaret Love, 47 U. Tol. L. Rev. 89 (2015)

National Summit on Collateral Consequences – Conference Report
ABA Criminal Justice Section (2015)

Wrongful Collateral Consequences
Abigail E. Horn, 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 315 (2019)

More Justice and Less Harm: Reinventing Access to Criminal History Records
Alessandro Corda, 60 Howard Law Journal 1 (2017)

Disenfranchised by Debt: Millions Impoverished by Prison, Blocked from Voting
Alliance for a Just Society (2016)

Jobs After Jail: Ending the prison to poverty pipeline
Alliance for a Just Society (2016)

Street Vendors, Taxicabs, and Exclusion Zones: The Impact of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions at the Local Level
Amy P. Meek, 75 Ohio St. L.J. 1 (2014)

Civil Disabilities in an Era of Diminished Privacy: A Disability Approach for the Use of Criminal Records in Hiring
Andrew Elmore, 64 DuPaul Law Review 991 (2015)

Casual Ostracism: Jury Exclusion on the Basis of Criminal Convictions
Anna Roberts, 98 Minn. L. Rev. 592 (2013)

Putting Time Limits on the Punitiveness of the Criminal Justice System
Anne Morrison Piehl, The Hamilton Project (2016)

Criminal Employment Law
Benjamin Levin, Cardozo Employment Law Review (forthcoming, 2017)

Removing Barriers to Opportunity for Parents With Criminal Records and Their Children: A Two Generation Approach
Center for American Progress (2015)

The Use of Criminal Records in College Admissions Reconsidered
Center for Community Alternatives (2010)

Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
Center for Community Alternatives (2015)

The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies
Center for Economic and Policy Research (2016)

Collateral Consequences of Punishment: A Critical Review and Path Forward
David S. Kirk & Sara Wakefield, 1 Annual Review of Criminology 171 (2018)

Prosecuting Collateral Consequences
Eisha Jain, 104 Geo. L. J. (2016)

Criminological Perspective on Juvenile Sex Offender Policy
Franklin E. Zimring, in The Safer Society Handbook of Assessment and Treatment with Adolescents Who Have Sexually Abused (2017)

Infamous Misdemeanors and the Grand Jury Clause
Gabriel Chin & John Ormonde, 102 U. Minnesota L. Rev. (2018)

Infamous Misdemeanors and the Grand Jury Clause
Gabriel J. Chin & John Ormonde, 102 Minnesota Law Review (2017)

Collateral Consequences and Criminal Justice: Future Policy and Constitutional Directions
Gabriel J. Chin, 102 Marq. L. Rev. 233 (2018)

The New Civil Death: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Conviction
Gabriel J. Chin, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1789 (2012)

Making Padilla Practical: Defense Counsel and Collateral Consequences at Guilty Plea
Gabriel J. Chin, 54 How. L.J. 675 (2011)

Collateral Consequences
Gabriel J. Chin, in Academy for Justice, A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform, vol. 4 at 371 (Erik Luna ed., 2017)

Legislating Forgiveness: A Study of Post-Conviction Certificates as Policy to Address the Employment Consequences of a Conviction
Heather Garretson, B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. (2016)

Collateral Consequences: Protecting Public Safety or Encouraging Recidivism?
Heritage Foundation (2017)

Raised on the Registry: The Irreparable Harm of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries in the U.S.
Human Rights Watch (2014)

Expungement of Criminal Records: An Empirical Study
J.J. Prescott & Sonja Star, University of Michigan Law, Law & Economics Research Paper No. 19-001 (2019)

Portmanteau Ascendant: Post-Release Regulations and Sex Offender Recidivism
J.J. Prescott, 48 Conn. L. Rev. 1035 (2016)

Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes
Jeffrey Selbin, Justin McCrary & Joshua Epstein, 108 J. Crim. L. & Criminology (2017)

Expunging America’s Rap Sheet in the Information Age
Jenny Roberts, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 321 (June 2015)

Informed Misdemeanor Sentencing
Jenny Roberts, 46 Hofstra L. Rev. 177 (2017)

Can We Forgive Those Who Batter? Proposing an End to the Collateral Consequences of Civil Domestic Violence Cases
Joann Sahl, 100 Marq. L. Rev. 527 (2017)

The Juvenile Record Myth
Joy Radice, 106 Georgetown L. J. No. 2 (2018)

The Reintegrative State
Joy Radice, 66 Emory L.J. 1314 (2017)

Administering Justice: Removing Statutory Barriers to Reentry
Joy Radice, 83 U. Colo. L. Rev. 715 (2012)

Future Interrupted: The Collateral Damage Caused by Proliferation of Juvenile Records
Juvenile Law Center (2016)

American Criminal Record Exceptionalism
Kevin Lapp, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. Law 303 (2016)

Beyond Title VII: Rethinking Race, Ex-Offender Status, and Employment Discrimination in the Information Age
Kimani Paul-Emile, 100 Va. L. Rev. 893 (2014)

Criminal Histories in Public Housing
Lahny Silva, Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2015)

Collateral Damage: A Public Housing Consequences of the ‘War on Drugs’
Lahny Silva, 5 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 783 (2015)

The Collateral Consequences of Padilla v. Kentucky: Is Forgiveness Now Constitutionally Required?
Margaret Colgate Love, 160 U. Penn. L. Rev. Pennumbra 113 (2011)

Collateral Consequences After Padilla v. Kentucky
Margaret Colgate Love, 31 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 87 (2011)

Paying their Debt to Society: Forgiveness, Redemption, and the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
Margaret Colgate Love, 54 How. L.J. 753 (2011)

Managing Collateral Consequences in the Sentencing Process: The Revised Sentencing Articles of the Model Penal Code
Margaret Love, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 247 (May 2015)

‘Collateral’ No More — The Practical Imperative for Holistic Defense in a Post-Padilla World…Or, How to Achieve Consistently Better Results for Clients
McGregor Smyth, 31 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 139 (2011)

Briefing the Supreme Court: Promoting Science or Myth?
Melissa Hamilton, 26 Emory Law Journal Online 2021 (2017)

Third-Class Citizenship: The Escalating Legal Consequences of Committing a “Violent” Crime
Michael M. O’Hear, 109 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 165 (2019)

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issues of Race and Dignity
Michael Pinard, 85 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 457 (2010)

Wasted Assets: The Cost of Excluding Ohioans With a Record From Work
Michael Shields & Pamela Thurston, Policy Matters Ohio & Ohio Justice & Policy Center (2018)

Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”
Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, Christopher Uggen, 16 Crim. & Pub. Policy 139 (2017)

Statistical (and Racial) Discrimination, ‘Banning the Box’, and Crime Rates
Murat C. Mungan, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-13 (2017)

Over-Incarceration and Disenfranchisement
Murat C. Mungan, Public Choice, No. 3-4 (2017)

Ensuring Fairness in Background Checks for On-Demand Work
National Employment Law Project (2016)

Unlicensed and Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Criminal Records
National Employment Law Project (2016)

Helping Moms, Dads, and Kids Come Home: Eliminating Barriers to Housing for People with Criminal Records
National H.I.R.E. Network (2016)

Judicial Challenges to the Collateral Impact of Criminal Convictions: Is True Change in the Offing?
Nora Demleitner, 90 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 36 (2016)

Linking People With Criminal Records to Employment in the Healthcare Sector: 5 Things to Consider
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2018)

Incorporating Collateral Consequences into Criminal Procedure
Paul T. Crane, 54 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1 (2019)

Recognizing Redemption: Old Criminal Records and Employment Outcomes
Peter Leasure & Tia Stevens Andersen, N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change, The Harbinger, Vol. 41, 271-286 (2016)

The Effectiveness of Certificates of Relief as Collateral Consequence Relief Mechanisms: An Experimental Study
Peter Leasure & Tia Stevens Andersen, Yale Law and Policy Review Inter Alia, Vol. 35, No. 11 (2016)

One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich (2014)

Collateral Consequences and the Preventive State
Sandra Mayson, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. 301 (2015)

Beyond the Sentence – Understanding Collateral Consequences
Sarah B. Berson, NIJ Journal (May 2013)

6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016
Sentencing Project (2016)

Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption, and the Effects on Communities
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2019)

Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals
U.S. Department of Education (2016)

Nonviolent Drug Convictions: Stakeholders’ Views on Potential Actions to Address Collateral Consequences
U.S. Government Accountability Office (2017)

Report of House Judiciary Committee hearing on collateral consequences
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Over-Criminalization Task Force (2014)

Criminal Background Checks and Access to Jobs: A Case Study of Washington, DC
Urban Institute (2017)

Criminal Background Checks: Impact on Employment and Recidivism
Urban Institute (2017)

Relief in Sight? States Rethink the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 2009 – 2014
Vera Institute of Justice (2014)

Legal Aid with Conviction: How to Combat Barriers to Reentry by Using the Law
Vidhi Sanghavi Joshi, Shriver Center (June 2017)

Database Infamia: Exit from the Sex Offender Registries
Wayne A. Logan, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 119 (April 2015)

When Mercy Seasons Justice: Interstate Recognition of Ex-Offender Rights
Wayne A. Logan, 29 U.C. Davis Law Review 1 (2015)

Sex Offender Registration and Notification
Wayne A. Logan, in Academy for Justice, A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform, vol. 4 at 397 (Erik Luna ed., 2017)

Informal Collateral Consequences
Wayne Logan, 88 Wash. L. Rev. 1103 (2013)

Addressing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for People Who Have Criminal Records
Addressing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for People Who Have Criminal Records

Effectively Engaging the Community in Juvenile Record Clearance
Effectively Engaging the Community in Juvenile Record Clearance

Technology and Criminal Record Clearance
Technology and Criminal Record Clearance

Using the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction Website
Using the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction Website