Collateral Consequences

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True Cost of Background Checks

All of Us or None v. Hamrick In May 2021, the appellate court in California ruled in All of Us or None v. Hamrick that trial courts in...

Perceptions of Sex Offender Registration: Collateral Consequences and Community Experiences

Requiring people who have been convicted of sex offenses to register on a list that is publicly accessible appears to do more harm than...

Homeless Shelters’ Policies on Sex Offenders: Is This Another Collateral Consequence?

People who are required to register on a sex offender list are more likely to be homeless, in large part because shelters are less likely...

Mythical Divide between Collateral and Direct Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Involuntary...

Courts should be required to inform people charged with a crime of any consequences, legal or otherwise, that a reasonable person would...

The Collateral Consequences of Prisonization: Racial Sorting, Carceral Identity, and Community....

Prisons perpetuate the criminalization of specific groups of people by sorting and labeling them as gang members. Analyzing how Latinx...

Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry

People with criminal records are often forced to find work through unofficial means, or by 'working around the law' because of the...

Obey All Laws and Be Good: Probation and the Meaning of Recidivism

As the most commonly imposed criminal sentence in the U.S., probation functions to expand the sprawling reach of the carceral state. This...

Collateral Consequences and the Preventive State

Collateral consequences are imposed as a measure of preventative risk management and should be regulated as such, rather than regulated...

Informal Collateral Consequences

Informal collateral consequences can be just as harmful as those that are considered formal. In addition to alleviating the impacts of...

Ex-offenders face tens of thousands of legal restrictions, bias and limits on their rights

People with criminal records face a multitude of barriers after incarceration. This article explains what collateral consequences are,...

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in American Courts: The View from the State Bench

Collateral consequences are actually not 'invisible' as they are discussed relatively frequently during court proceedings. This article...

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

Collateral consequences have effectively resurrected the colonial era of 'civil death' (a state in which a person's legal status is...