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Jenny Roberts, 2015 Wisconsin Law Review
(June 2015)As the Wall Street Journal first put it in 2014, “America has a rap sheet.” In 2015, between 70 and 100 million people in the United States had a criminal arrest or conviction record, and anyone — including employers, landlords, and data collection companies — can easily access these records ... -
Margaret Love, 2015 Wisconsin Law Review 247
(May 2015)This article argues that the debased legal status that results from a criminal conviction makes possible a regime of restrictions and exclusions that feels like punishment to those who are subject to it and looks like punishment to the community. The author contends that policymakers are beginning to understand that ... -
National Employment Law Project
(April 2015)Distilled from the National Employment Law Project's (NELP's) work with jurisdictions across the country and applicable to any state or region, this toolkit is designed for jurisdictions as they craft fair chance policies, including “ban the box”. The toolkit includes a top ten principles to follow, including avoiding stigmatizing language and expanding fair ... -
Wayne A. Logan, 2015 Wisconsin Law Review 119
(April 2015)Since originating in the early-mid 1990s, sex offender registration and community notification laws have swept the country, now affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. The laws require that individuals provide, update and at least annually verify personal identifying information, which governments make publicly available via the Internet ... -
Center for Community Alternatives
(March 2015)With this study and report, the Center for Community Alternatives builds upon what was revealed in their 2010 study, The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered (PDF). The Reconsidered study illuminated that a growing number of colleges and universities are asking about criminal history information during the application ... -
American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section
(February 2015)Recognizing the mutual responsibility of those in the criminal justice community to close the opportunity gap created by collateral consequences, the American Bar Association (ABA) Criminal Justice Section brought together the collective minds of the leadership of myriad distinguished organizations in February 2015. Their purpose was to examine and debate ... -
Sandra Mayson, 91 Notre Dame Law Review 301
(January 2015)According to this article, approximately eight percent of adults in the United States have a felony conviction. The author argues that the “collateral consequences” of criminal conviction (CCs)—legal disabilities imposed by legislatures on the basis of conviction, but not as part of the sentence—have relegated that group to permanent second ... -
Lahny Silva, 5 U.C. Irvine Law Review 783
(January 2015)This article hopes to add to the existing scholarship and advocacy regarding exclusionary federal housing policies. It is meant not only to supplement the collateral-consequences literature by identifying and examining additional issues in the administration of federal housing policy, but also to draw attention to the inequities inherent in the ...