Aug 30, 2021True Cost of Background ChecksAll 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...
Apr 26, 2021Perceptions of Sex Offender Registration: Collateral Consequences and Community ExperiencesRequiring people who have been convicted of sex offenses to register on a list that is publicly accessible appears to do more harm than...
Apr 26, 2021Homeless 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...
Apr 26, 2021Mythical 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...
Apr 26, 2021The 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...
Apr 26, 2021Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during ReentryPeople with criminal records are often forced to find work through unofficial means, or by 'working around the law' because of the...
Apr 26, 2021Obey All Laws and Be Good: Probation and the Meaning of RecidivismAs the most commonly imposed criminal sentence in the U.S., probation functions to expand the sprawling reach of the carceral state. This...
