Resources

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 52

Expungement Reform in Arizona: The Empirical Case for a Clean Slate

Sonja B. Starr, 2020

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 2

Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study

J.J. Prescott and Sonja B. Starr, May 2020

St. John's Law Review, Vol 94, No. 2

Can a Person’s “Slate” Ever Really Be “Cleaned”? The Modern-Day Implications of Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Act

Kimberly E. Capuder, 2020

Criminal Record Expungement and Orders for Limited Access in Pennsylvania

Aidan Kaplan, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 10/18/2018

America’s Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap

Colleen V. Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law, 12/16/2020

Erasing the Mark of a Criminal Past: Ex-Offenders’ Expectations and Experiences with Record Clearance

Ericka Adams, Elsa Chen, and Rosella Chapman, Punishment & Society, 09/07/2017

The Washington State Second Chance Expungement Gap

Colleen V. Chien, Santa Clara University, School of Law; Zuyan Huang, Santa Clara University; Jacob Kuykendall; Katie Rabago, Santa Clara University, School of Law, 2/28/2020

The Connecticut Second Chance Pardon Gap

Colleen V. Chien Santa Clara University, School of Law; Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering; Hithesh Bathala, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business; Prajakta Pingale, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business; Evan Hastings, Santa Clara University, School of Law; Adam Osmond, Santa Clara University, Paper Prisons Initiative, 03/10/2021

The Language of Stigmatization and the Mark of Violence: Experimental Evidence on the Social Construction and Use of Criminal Record Stigma

Megan Denver, Justin T. Pickett, and Shawn D. Bushway, June 2017

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

Expungement, Defamation and False Light: Is What Happened Before What Really Happened or Is There a Chance for a Second Act in America?

Doris Del Tosto Brogan, May 2017

Georgia Justice Project

Keep the Courtroom Doors Closed So the Doors of Opportunity Can Remain Open: An Argument for Maintaining Privacy in the Juvenile Justice System

Leila R. Siddiky, 2011

Albany Law Review 75, no.3

Limiting the Use of Expunged Offenses in Bar and Law School Admissions Processes: A Case for Not Creating Unnecessary Problems

Mitchell M. Simon, 2014

Boston College Law Review 57, no. 1

Journey Out of Neverland: CORI Reform, Commonwealth v. Peter Pon, and Massachusetts’s Emergence as a National Exemplar for Juvenile Record Sealing

Chris Skall, 2016

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 49

Banning the Box but Keeping the Discrimination? Disparate Impact and Employers’ Overreliance on Criminal Background Checks

Johnathan Smith, 2014

Race and Justice 3, no.3

Racial Disparities in Pretrial Diversion: An Analysis of Outcomes Among Men Charged with Felonies and Processed in State Courts

Traci Schlesinger, 2013

UC Davis Law Review 45, no. 2

Why Misdemeanors Matter: Defining Effective Advocacy in Lower Criminal Courts

Jenny Roberts, 2011

Wisconsin Law Review 2, no. 321

Expunging America’s Rap Sheet in the Information Age

Jenny Roberts, 2015

Pace Law Review 36, no. 2

A Proposal to Allow the Presentation of Mitigation in Juvenile Court So That Juvenile Charges May Be Expunged in Appropriate Cases

Katherine I. Puzone, 2016

William Mitchell Law Review 40, no. 3

Who’s Lying Now: How the Public Dissemination of Incomplete, Thus Half-Truthful, Information Regarding a Statutorily Rehabilitated Petty Offender is an Unjust Penalty and Why Law Regarding Expungement of and Restrictions on Dissemination of Criminal Records Information in California Must Be Reformed

Wallace Wade , 2010

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 102:1

An Integrated Perspective on the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions and Reentry Issues Faced by Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Michael Pinard, 2006

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 47

Legislating Forgiveness: A Study of Post- Conviction Certificates as Policy to Address the Employment Consequences of a Conviction

Heather J. Garretson , February 2016

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change 3

Does ‘Ban the Box’ Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden

Jennifer L. Doleac and Benjamin Hansen, July 2016

St. John’s Law Review 66, no. 1

When Cleansing Criminal History Clashes with the First Amendment and Online Journalism: Are Expungement Statutes Irrelevant in the Digital Age?

Clay Calvert and Jerry Bruno, 2010

M.P.A. project, University of Washington

Journal Articles (95)

Articles on criminal records, record clearance, and related issues.

Expungement Reform in Arizona: The Empirical Case for a Clean Slate

Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study

Can a Person’s “Slate” Ever Really Be “Cleaned”? The Modern-Day Implications of Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Act

Criminal Record Expungement and Orders for Limited Access in Pennsylvania

America’s Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap

Erasing the Mark of a Criminal Past: Ex-Offenders’ Expectations and Experiences with Record Clearance

The Washington State Second Chance Expungement Gap

The Connecticut Second Chance​ ​Pardon​ ​Gap

Beyond Totem and Taboo: Toward a Narrowing of American Criminal Record Exceptionalism

Off the Record: Preserving Statistical Information After Juvenile Expungement

Paying For a Clean Record

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction

The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010

Preventing Background Screeners from Reporting Expunged Criminal Cases

When Mercy Seasons Justice: Interstate Recognition of Ex-Offender Rights

Extension of Current Estimates of Redemption Times: Robustness Testing, Out-of-State Arrests, and Racial Differences

A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011

The Absorbing Status of Incarceration and its Relationship with Wealth Accumulation

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Ants Under the Refrigerator? Removing Expunged Cases from Commercial Background Checks

Are Criminal Convictions a Public Matter? The USA and Spain

More Justice and Less Harm: Reinventing Access to Criminal History Records

Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”

Unstitching Scarlet Letters? Prosecutorial Discretion and Expungement

The Language of Stigmatization and the Mark of Violence: Experimental Evidence on the Social Construction and Use of Criminal Record Stigma

Expungement, Defamation and False Light: Is What Happened Before What Really Happened or Is There a Chance for a Second Act in America?

Georgia: Collateral Consequences of Arrests and Convictions: Policy and Law in Georgia

Expungement and Limiting Public Access to Alaska Criminal Case Records in the Digital Age

Clean Slate: Expanding Expungements and Pardons for Non-Violent Federal Offenders

Keep the Courtroom Doors Closed So the Doors of Opportunity Can Remain Open: An Argument for Maintaining Privacy in the Juvenile Justice System

The Expungement Myth

Expungement and Post-Exoneration Offending

Significant Entanglements: A Framework for the Civil Consequences of Criminal Convictions

Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes

Limiting the Use of Expunged Offenses in Bar and Law School Admissions Processes: A Case for Not Creating Unnecessary Problems

Journey Out of Neverland: CORI Reform, Commonwealth v. Peter Pon, and Massachusetts’s Emergence as a National Exemplar for Juvenile Record Sealing

Banning the Box but Keeping the Discrimination? Disparate Impact and Employers’ Overreliance on Criminal Background Checks

Racial Disparities in Pretrial Diversion: An Analysis of Outcomes Among Men Charged with Felonies and Processed in State Courts

Why Misdemeanors Matter: Defining Effective Advocacy in Lower Criminal Courts

Expunging America’s Rap Sheet in the Information Age

A Proposal to Allow the Presentation of Mitigation in Juvenile Court So That Juvenile Charges May Be Expunged in Appropriate Cases

No Clean Slates: Unpacking the Complications of Juvenile Expungement in the Wake of “In Re Welfare of J.J.P.”

In Search of a Job: Criminal Records as Barriers to Employment

Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime—But Not Drug Use

The Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of The Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment

The Data-Broker Threat: Proposing Federal Legislation to Protect Post-Expungement Privacy

Sealing the Record: An Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in Juvenile Sex Offender Record Sealing Laws

Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism

Criminal Records, Race and Redemption

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issues of Race and Dignity

An Integrated Perspective on the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions and Reentry Issues Faced by Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Reforming the Law of Reputation

Investigating Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: a Field Experiment

The Mark of a Criminal Record

Facing Your Criminal Record: Expungement and the Collateral Problem of Wrongfully Represented Self

A New Era for Expungement Law Reform? Recent Developments at the State and Federal Levels

Reducing Crime through Expungements

In Search of Redemption: Expungement of Federal Criminal Records

Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion: Helpful, Harmful, or Both?

Compounded Disadvantage: Race, Incarceration, and Wage Growth

Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers

Paying Their Debt to Society: Forgiveness, Redemption and the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act

Informal Collateral Consequences

An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Certificates of Recovery as Collateral Consequence Relief Mechanisms

Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records

Found Out and Opting Out: The Consequences of Online Criminal Records for Families

Enduring Risk? Old Criminal Records and Predictions of Future Criminal Involvement

The Criminal Population in New England: Records, Convictions, and Barriers to Employment

Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood

Called ‘Out’ at Home: The One-Strike Eviction Policy and Juvenile Court

When the Fallout of a Criminal Conviction Goes Too Far: Challenging Collateral Consequences

Prosecuting Collateral Consequences

Arrests as Regulation

Mass Incarceration and the Proliferation of Criminal Records

Indefinite Punishment and The Criminal Record: Stigma Reports Among Expungement-Seekers in Illinois

Legislating Forgiveness: A Study of Post- Conviction Certificates as Policy to Address the Employment Consequences of a Conviction

The Connecticut Second Chance Pardon Gap

Unmarked?  Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes