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Gabriel J. Chin, in Reforming Criminal Justice: Vol 4. Punishment, Incarceration, and Release (Erik Luna ed.)
(June 2017)Part of The Academy for Justice report, Reforming Criminal Justice: Vol 4. Punishment, Incarceration, and Release (PDF), this article argues that, for many people convicted of crime, the greatest effect will not be imprisonment, but being marked as a criminal and subjected to collateral consequences. Consequences can include loss of civil rights, ... -
Texas State Law Library
(April 2017)Time in prison is often not the only consequence of a felony conviction in Texas. There are also many statutes, administrative rules, state court rules, and federal court rules that may further restrict a person with a felony conviction on their record in Texas. This collection attempts to bring together many of these restrictions for ... -
Alessandro Corda, 60 Howard Law Journal 1
(April 2017)According to the author, this article challenges the conventional wisdom that public access and dissemination of criminal history information raise no special problems once a conviction occurs. The label “offender” burdens convicted individuals long after their debt to society has been paid. Numerous damaging effects labeled as mere “informal” collateral ... -
Murat C. Mungan, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 16-43
(March 2017)This article presents a model wherein law enforcers propose sentences to maximize their likelihood of reelection, and shows, according to its author, that elections typically generate over-incarceration (i.e., longer than optimal sentences). The article then studies the effects of disenfranchisement laws, which prohibit convicted felons from voting. According to the author, ... -
Murat C. Mungan, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-13
(March 2017)This article presents law enforcement models where employers engage in statistical discrimination, and the visibility of criminal records can be adjusted through policies (such as ban the box campaigns). The author shows that statistical discrimination leads to an increase in crime rates under plausible conditions. According to the author, this ... -
Melissa Hamilton, 67 Emory Law Journal Online
(March 2017)This essay explores the United States Supreme Court's consideration of Packingham v. North Carolina, a case testing the constitutionality of a ban on the use of social networking sites by registered sex offenders. The author discusses that an issue that has arisen in the case is the state’s justification for ... -
Franklin E. Zimring, in The Safer Society Handbook of Assessment and Treatment with Adolescents Who Have Sexually Abused
(March 2017)The four sections of this article provide an empirical narrative of the known facts about juvenile sex offending and offenders and the misfit between facts and current policy: The first and longest section of this article provides a statistical portrait of juvenile sex offenses and offenders. A second section address three linked ... -
Peter Leasure & Tia Stevens Andersen, N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change, The Harbinger, Vol. 41
(March 2017)According to the article's authors, upon completion of their sentences and when attempting to ‘reenter’ society, offenders face large barriers, often referred to as the ‘collateral consequences’ of conviction. One of the largest barriers, given the stigma of a criminal record, is finding employment. The problem, the authors continue, primarily arises ...