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The eternal criminal record /

For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person's interactions with just about ever...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobs, James B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Intelligence and investigative databases
  • Linking bodies to criminal histories
  • Court records
  • Privatizing criminal records
  • Whether to create a criminal record
  • Sealing, purging, and amending conviction records
  • Erroneous records problems
  • Transparency of criminal convictions
  • Public access to arrestee information
  • Publicly accessible criminal records and punishment theory
  • Criminal justice consequences of a criminal record
  • Second-class citizens by law
  • Employment discrimination based on a criminal record
  • Conclusion.