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Civil Penalties Social Consequences.
Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Civil Penalties, Social Consequences; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Collateral Civil Penalties as Techniques of Social Policy; 2. Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction; 3. By Any Means Necessary: Collateral Civil Penalties of Non-U.S. Citizens and the War on Terror; 4. Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons; 5. Battered Women, Battered Again: The Impact of Women's Criminal Records.
- 6 A Practitioner's Account of the Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on Incarcerated Persons and Their Families7. Home Sweet Home for Ex-Offenders; 8. The Civil Threat of Eviction and the Regulation and Control of U.S. Public Housing Communities; 9. The Everyday World of House Arrest: Collateral Consequences for Families and Others; 10. Immigration Law as Social Control: How Many People Without Rights Does It Take to Make You Feel Secure?; 11. A Vicious Cycle: Resanctioning Offenders.
- 12. Lawyering at the Margins: Collateral Civil Penalties at the Entry and Completion of the Criminal Sentence13. Claiming Our Rights: Challenging Postconviction Penalties Using an International Human Rights Framework; 14. Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts; 15. Civil Disabilities of Former Prisoners in a Constitutional Democracy: Building on the South African Experience; List of Contributors; Index.