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Paying For a Clean Record

Amy F. Kimpel, Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic, University of Alabama School of Law, 20220501

Off the Record: Preserving Statistical Information After Juvenile Expungement

Eve Rips, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, 20220329

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

Alessandro Corda, Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, 20180701

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, 20210310

Journal Articles

Journal Articles (94)

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

Paying For a Clean Record

Off the Record: Preserving Statistical Information After Juvenile Expungement

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

The Connecticut Second Chance​ ​Pardon​ ​Gap

The Washington State Second Chance Expungement Gap

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

America’s Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap

Criminal Record Expungement and Orders for Limited Access in Pennsylvania

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

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

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?

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

Juvenile Incarceration and the Pains of Imprisonment

The Connecticut Second Chance Pardon Gap

Unmarked?  Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes