The eternal criminal record / James B. Jacobs.
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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.