News & Resources
Resources
National studies & inventories
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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)
State studies & inventories
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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) -
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)
Standards, Policies, and Model Legislation
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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)
General Resources
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Collateral Consequences Resource Center
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Clean Slate Clearinghouse
Council of State Governments Justice Center -
Criminal Justice Resources
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Restoration of Rights Project
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Collateral Consequences Resource List
Sentencing Resource Counsel Project (2010)
Books
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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)
Reports and Articles
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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)
Webinars
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Addressing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for People Who Have Criminal Records
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Effectively Engaging the Community in Juvenile Record Clearance
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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