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...
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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...
How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution
The unemployment rate in the U.S. would be higher if fewer people were incarcerated. By analyzing employment and prison data, this...
Locked Out of the Labor Market? State-Level Hidden Sentences and the Labor Market Outcomes...
States with more and harsher collateral consequences are more likely to negatively impact employment outcomes for people with criminal...
Incarceration and Stratification
Prisons generate and perpetuate social inequalities in various forms, including employment discrimination, health and education...
Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar...
Historians have not adequately assessed and analyzed the impact of post 1960 mass incarceration. Divided into three parts, the author...
Against Punishment: Centering Work, Wages, and Uneven Development in Mapping the Carceral State
In eastern Kentucky, prisons (like coal) serve as responses to the cycles and problems of capitalism, including deindustrialization,...
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
The carceral state is a highly functioning labor market institution that both excludes people from the labor market and extracts labor....
“Still Doin' Time:” Clamoring for Work in the Day Labor Industry
The day-labor industry perpetuates socioeconomic inequities through its regulation of formerly incarcerated people, while positioning...
The Financial Cost of a Criminal Conviction: Context and Consequences
The use of Legal Financial Obligations (i.e., court fines and supervision fees to child support payments), further impedes the upward...
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