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Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction

Chin, Gabriel J., December 2017

Demography Vol. 54, No. 5

The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010

Shannon, Sarah K.S., Christopher Uggen, Jason Schnittker, et al., October 2017

Community Legal Services of Philadelphia

Preventing Background Screeners from Reporting Expunged Criminal Cases

Sharon Dietrich, April 2015

U.C. Davis Law Review vol. 49, no. 1

When Mercy Seasons Justice: Interstate Recognition of Ex-Offender Rights

Logan, Wayne, November 2015

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Extension of Current Estimates of Redemption Times: Robustness Testing, Out-of-State Arrests, and Racial Differences

Blumstein, Alfred, and Kiminori Nakamura, October 2012

The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2 (6): 129-152

A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011

Sykes, Brian L. and Michelle Maroto, 2016

Journal of Quantitative Criminology 31: 207-236

The Absorbing Status of Incarceration and its Relationship with Wealth Accumulation

Maroto, Michelle L., 2015

The Society of Labor Economists

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Minor, Dylan, Nicola Persico, and Deborah M. Weiss, May 2017

Criminal Justice

Ants Under the Refrigerator? Removing Expunged Cases from Commercial Background Checks

Dietrich, Sharon, Winter 2016

Punishment and Society 14, no. 1

Are Criminal Convictions a Public Matter? The USA and Spain

Jacobs, James B. and Elena Larrauri, 2012

Howard Law Journal 60, No. 1

More Justice and Less Harm: Reinventing Access to Criminal History Records

Corda, Alessandro, 2016

Criminology & Public Policy 16, no. 1

Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”

Vuolo, Mike, Sarah Lageson, and Christopher Uggen, February 2017

Fordham Law Review

Unstitching Scarlet Letters? Prosecutorial Discretion and Expungement

Murray, Brian, forthcoming

Criminology

The Language of Stigmatization and the Mark of Violence: Experimental Evidence on the Social Construction and Use of Criminal Record Stigma

Denver, Megan, Justin T. Pickett, and Shawn D. Bushway, June 2017

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

Expungement, Defamation and False Light: Is What Happened Before What Really Happened or Is There a Chance for a Second Act in America?

Del Tosto Brogan, Doris, May 2017

Georgia Justice Project

Georgia: Collateral Consequences of Arrests and Convictions: Policy and Law in Georgia

Dennard, H. Lane Jr. and Patrick C. DiCarlo, September 2008

Alaska Justice Forum 32, no. 1

Expungement and Limiting Public Access to Alaska Criminal Case Records in the Digital Age

Armstrong, Barbara, and Deborah Periman, Spring 2015

University of Cincinnati Law Review 79, no. 1

Clean Slate: Expanding Expungements and Pardons for Non-Violent Federal Offenders

Silva, Lahny R., 2011

Howard Law Journal 55

Keep the Courtroom Doors Closed So the Doors of Opportunity Can Remain Open: An Argument for Maintaining Privacy in the Juvenile Justice System

Siddiky, Leila R., 2011

Albany Law Review 75, no.3

The Expungement Myth

Shlosberg, Amy, Evan J. Mandery, and Valerie West, 2012

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 104

Expungement and Post-Exoneration Offending

Shlosberg, Amy, Evan J. Mandery, Valerie West, and Bennett Callaghan, 2014

American Criminal Law Review 49, no. 3

Significant Entanglements: A Framework for the Civil Consequences of Criminal Convictions

Shanahan, Colleen F., 2012

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 108, no. 1

Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes

Selbin, Jeffrey, Justin McCrary, and Joshua Epstein, 2017

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 28

Limiting the Use of Expunged Offenses in Bar and Law School Admissions Processes: A Case for Not Creating Unnecessary Problems

Simon, Mitchell M., 2014

Boston College Law Review 57, no. 1

Journey Out of Neverland: CORI Reform, Commonwealth v. Peter Pon, and Massachusetts’s Emergence as a National Exemplar for Juvenile Record Sealing

Skall, Chris, 2016

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 49

Banning the Box but Keeping the Discrimination? Disparate Impact and Employers’ Overreliance on Criminal Background Checks

Smith, Johnathan, 2014

Race and Justice 3, no.3

Racial Disparities in Pretrial Diversion: An Analysis of Outcomes Among Men Charged with Felonies and Processed in State Courts

Schlesinger, Traci, 2013

UC Davis Law Review 45, no. 2

Why Misdemeanors Matter: Defining Effective Advocacy in Lower Criminal Courts

Roberts, Jenny, 2011

Wisconsin Law Review 2, no. 321

Expunging America’s Rap Sheet in the Information Age

Roberts, Jenny, 2015

Pace Law Review 36, no. 2

A Proposal to Allow the Presentation of Mitigation in Juvenile Court So That Juvenile Charges May Be Expunged in Appropriate Cases

Puzone, Katherine I., 2016

William Mitchell Law Review 40, no. 3

No Clean Slates: Unpacking the Complications of Juvenile Expungement in the Wake of “In Re Welfare of J.J.P.”

Puechner, Nic, 2014

NIJ Journal 270

In Search of a Job: Criminal Records as Barriers to Employment

Solomon, Amy L. , June 2012

Social Problems 61, no. 1

Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime—But Not Drug Use

Uggen, Christopher, and Sarah K.S. Shannon, 2014

Criminology 52, no. 4

The Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of The Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment

Uggen, Christopher, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, Ebony Ruhland, and Hilary K. Whitham, 2014

Western State University Law Review

Who’s Lying Now: How the Public Dissemination of Incomplete, Thus Half-Truthful, Information Regarding a Statutorily Rehabilitated Petty Offender is an Unjust Penalty and Why Law Regarding Expungement of and Restrictions on Dissemination of Criminal Records Information in California Must Be Reformed

Wade, Wallace , 2010

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 102:1

The Data-Broker Threat: Proposing Federal Legislation to Protect Post-Expungement Privacy

Wayne, Logan Danielle, 2012

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law Medicine 24:1

Sealing the Record: An Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in Juvenile Sex Offender Record Sealing Laws

Wieder, Nori , 2014

Journal of Public Economics Volume 147

Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism

Yang, Crystal S. , March 2017

New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 16, no.4

Criminal Records, Race and Redemption

Pinard, Michael, 2013

New York University Law Review 85, no. 2

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issues of Race and Dignity

Pinard, Michael, 2010

Boston University Law Review 86

An Integrated Perspective on the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions and Reentry Issues Faced by Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Pinard, Michael, 2006

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 47

Reforming the Law of Reputation

Pasquale, Frank, 2015

Report to the National Institute of Justice, Document 228584, Award 2005-IJ-CX-0019

Investigating Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men

Pager, Devah and Bruce Western, 2009

American Sociological Review 74, no.5

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: a Field Experiment

Pager, Devah, Bart Bonikowski, and Bruce Western, 2009

American Journal of Sociology 108, no. 5

The Mark of a Criminal Record

Pager, Devah, 2003

Law and Society Review 47, no.1

Facing Your Criminal Record: Expungement and the Collateral Problem of Wrongfully Represented Self

Myrick, Amy, February 2013

Harvard Law and Policy Review 10

A New Era for Expungement Law Reform? Recent Developments at the State and Federal Levels

Murray, Brian, 2016

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Reducing Crime through Expungements

Mungan, Murat C., 2017

Law School Student Scholarship, Seton Hall Law School

In Search of Redemption: Expungement of Federal Criminal Records

Mukherji, Raj, 2013

Criminology and Public Policy 15, no. 3

Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion: Helpful, Harmful, or Both?

Mears, Daniel P., et al., 2016

National Poverty Center Working Paper Series, no. 08-16

Compounded Disadvantage: Race, Incarceration, and Wage Growth

Lyons, Christopher J., and Becky Pettit, October 2008

Social Forces

Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers

Lundquist, Jennifer, Devah Pager, and Eiko Strader, January 2018

Howard Law Journal 54, no.3

Paying Their Debt to Society: Forgiveness, Redemption and the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act

Love, Margaret C., 2011

Washington Law Review 88, no. 3

Informal Collateral Consequences

Logan, Wayne, 2013

Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia

An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Certificates of Recovery as Collateral Consequence Relief Mechanisms

Leasure, Peter, and Tia Stevens Andersen, November 7, 2016

Law & Social Inquiry 40, no.1

Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records

Lageson, Sarah E., Mike Vuolo, and Christopher Uggen, 2014

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 665, no. 1

Found Out and Opting Out: The Consequences of Online Criminal Records for Families

Lageson, Sarah Esther, 2016

Crime & Delinquency 53, no. 1

Enduring Risk? Old Criminal Records and Predictions of Future Criminal Involvement

Kurlychek, Megan C., Robert Brame, and Shawn D. Bushway, January 2007

New England Public Policy Center Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The Criminal Population in New England: Records, Convictions, and Barriers to Employment

Sullivan, Riley and Robert Clifford, March 2017

Sociology of Education 86

Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood

Kirk, David S., and Robert A. Sampson, May 2012

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change 3

Called ‘Out’ at Home: The One-Strike Eviction Policy and Juvenile Court

Kaplan, Wendy J., and David Rossman, 2011

Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 11, no. 2

When the Fallout of a Criminal Conviction Goes Too Far: Challenging Collateral Consequences

Jones, Danielle R., 2015

Georgetown Law Journal 104, no. 5

Prosecuting Collateral Consequences

Jain, Eisha, 2016

Stanford Law Review 67, no. 4

Arrests as Regulation

Jain, Eisha, 2015

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law 3, no. 3

Mass Incarceration and the Proliferation of Criminal Records

Jacobs, James B, Spring 2006

Criminology 54, no. 3

Indefinite Punishment and The Criminal Record: Stigma Reports Among Expungement-Seekers in Illinois

Ispa-Landa, Simone, and Charles E. Loeffler, August 2016

Public Interest Law Journal 25

Legislating Forgiveness: A Study of Post- Conviction Certificates as Policy to Address the Employment Consequences of a Conviction

Garretson, Heather J. , February 2016

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change 3

Juvenile Incarceration and the Pains of Imprisonment

Fagan, Jeffrey, and Aaron Kupchik, 2011

Law and Social Inquiry 41, no. 1

Rights Restoration and the Entanglement of US Criminal and Civil Law: A Study of New York’s Certificates of Relief

Ewald, Alec, Winter 2016

Social Science Quarterly 93, no. 1

Collateral Consequences in the American States

Ewald, Alec, January 2012

Indiana Law Journal 90, no. 3

I Did My Time: The Transformation of Indiana’s Expungement Law

Dugan, Joseph C., Summer 2015

National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 22469

Does ‘Ban the Box’ Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden

Doleac, Jennifer L. and Benjamin Hansen, July 2016

St. John’s Law Review 66, no. 1

Federal Expungement: A Concept in Need of a Definition

Diehm, James, April 2012

Report to the National Institute of Justice, Award No. 2010-MU-MU-0004

Criminal Stigma, Race, Gender, and Employment: An Expanded Assessment of the Consequences of Imprisonment for Employment

Decker, Scott H., Cassia Spohn, and Natalie R. Ortiz, 2014

Maryland Law Review 71, no. 3

Sustaining Privacy and Open Justice in the Transition to Online Court Records: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry

Conley, Amanda, and Anupam Datta, 2012

University of Pennsylvania Law Review 160, no. 6

The New Civil Death: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Conviction

Chin, Gabriel J., 2012

Undergraduate Practicum, Stanford University

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Criminal Record Expungement in Santa Clara County

Chapin, Meyli, Alon Elhanan, Matthew Rillera, Audrey Solomon, and Tyler Woods, 2014

19 CommLaw Conspectus 123

When Cleansing Criminal History Clashes with the First Amendment and Online Journalism: Are Expungement Statutes Irrelevant in the Digital Age?

Calvert, Clay, and Jerry Bruno, 2010

M.P.A. project, University of Washington

Open Juvenile Records in Washington State: Process, Effects, and Costs of Protective Mechanisms

Calero, Tony, 2013

Criminology 49, no. 1

The Predictive Value of Criminal Background Checks: Do Age and Criminal History Affect Time to Redemption?

Bushway, Shawn D., Paul Nieuwbeerta, and Arjan Blokland, February 2011

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change, Vol. 3

Creating Positive Consequences: Improving Education Outcomes for Youth Adjudicated Delinquent

Burdick, Katherine, Jessica Feierman, and Maura McInerney, 2011

Criminology 47, no. 2

Redemption in the Presence of Widespread Criminal Background Checks

Blumstein, Alfred, and Kiminori Nakamura, May 2009

Journal of Public Child Welfare 5

Legislative Advocacy for and by Youth Transitioning from Foster Care: A Practice/Education Collaboration

Ausbrooks, Angela R., David M. Gwin, and J. Karen Brown, May 2011

University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper no. 16-012

Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment

Agan, Amanda Y. and Sonja B. Starr, June 2016

Resources from Federal Agencies (9)

Developed by U.S federal agencies.

Foster Care Transition Toolkit

Guidance for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and Owners of Federally-Assisted Housing on Excluding the Use of Arrest Records in Housing Decisions

Office of General Counsel Guidance on Application of Fair Housing Act Standards to the Use of Criminal Records by Providers of Housing and Real Estate-Related Transactions

Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Background Checks: What Employers Need to Know

Background Checks: What Job Applicants and Employees Should Know

Your Money, Your Goals: Focus on Reentry

Complying with Nondiscrimination Provisions: Criminal Record Restrictions and Discrimination Based on Race and National Origin

Training and Employment Guidance Letter NO. 31-11

Journal Articles (84)

Articles on criminal records, record clearance, and related issues.