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This article discusses collateral sanctions—legal restrictions on the rights and privileges of people who have experienced contact with the criminal justice system, particularly contact resulting in conviction. As the author states, these sanctions are usually placed in civil and regulatory codes and may limit a person’s ability to vote, live in ...

Criminal background checks continue to be a routine practice among many employers in the United States. According to a recent survey, almost 60 percent of employers screen job applicants for their criminal histories. According to this report's authors, despite their prevalence, criminal background checks often generate flawed or incomplete reports, ...

According to the author, the unprecedented growth of the penal system in the United States has motivated an expansive volume of research on the collateral consequences of punishment. In this review, we take stock of what is known about these collateral consequences, particularly in the domains of health, employment, housing, ...

As the article's author contends, public concern has mounted about the essentially permanent stigma created by a criminal record. This article takes a systematic look at state reforms and integrates them into a more workable and effective whole, which I call the Reintegrative State. It makes four contributions to the literature ...

The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 included a provision for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review collateral consequences for individuals with non-violent drug convictions (NVDCs). This report identifies (1) collateral consequences in federal laws and regulations that can be imposed upon individuals with NVDC, (2) mechanisms ...

The impact of a criminal conviction is greater than a number of days in prison or a number of dollars fined. Thousands of federal, state, and local laws impose additional consequences on people convicted of crimes, many of which remain in effect far beyond any judicially-imposed sentence. Unlike incarceration and ...

Criminal convictions in Ohio have many consequences. Court-imposed sentences, such as fines and incarceration, are the direct consequences familiar to many people. Not so familiar are the indirect, or "collateral," side-effects of a criminal conviction. These are laws that impose extra burdens and restrictions on people with criminal records, often long after the court-imposed sentence is ...

This report examines the collateral consequences specific to job opportunities using Washington, DC, as a case study. Following the national trends highlighted a previous Urban report, criminal background checks can limit the pool of jobs that people with criminal histories in Washington, DC, qualify for and can lead to high ...