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Jonathan Haggerty, Former Resident Fellow, Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties, R Street
(May 2018)According to this report from R Street, occupational licensing laws govern who can and cannot work in certain professions—and many of these laws shut out entire swaths of the workforce based on their criminal record. This analysis finds that such provisions not only harm job seekers with records, but also violate ... -
JustLeadershipUSA
(May 2018)JustLeadershipUSA’s #WORKINGfuture campaign outlines a “Bill of Rights” for workers with criminal records. The Bill of Rights proposes a new way of thinking about the rights of formerly incarcerated people, rooted in the principles of dignity, restorative justice, and economic security and mobility. #WORKINGfuture is an economic justice campaign to break ... -
Mariel Alper, Ph.D., and Matthew R. Durose, BJS Statisticians; Joshua Markman, former BJS Statistician, Bureau of Justice Statistics
(May 2018)This report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the post-release offending 20 patterns of former prisoners and their involvement in criminal activity both within and outside of the 10 state where they were imprisoned. The report cites that the 401,288 state prisoners released ... -
Californians for Safety and Justice
(May 2018)This first-of-its-kind study from Californians for Safety and Justice offers policy recommendations for eliminating unnecessary barriers and legal restrictions associated with a criminal record, based on the real-life experiences of justice-involved Californians and the challenges they face. Survey data collected in the study show that more than three-quarters of people ... -
Jenny Roberts, 46 Hofstra Law Review 177
(March 2018)This article’s goal is two-fold: First, it contextualizes judicial responsibility for misdemeanor sentencing in the realities of the lower criminal courts, where a number of structural and systemic barriers — including violations of the right to counsel and pressures on judges to move cases along rapidly — affect but do ... -
Joy Radice, 106 Georgetown Law Journal 2
(January 2018)This Article addresses that myth and adds to both the juvenile justice and collateral consequences literature in four ways. First, The Juvenile Record Myth illuminates the variety of ways states treat juvenile records — revealing that state confidentiality, sealing, and expungement provisions often provide far less protection than those terms suggest. ... -
Alec C. Ewald, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology
(December 2017)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 ... -
Urban Institute
(November 2017)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, ...