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Gault Center Collateral Consequences Resource Library

The Gault Center, which is dedicated to promoting justice for all children and youth by ensuring excellence in youth legal defense, houses a resource ...
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Off the Record: Preserving Statistical Information After Juvenile Expungement

This journal article examines how to protect the benefits for youth of destroying records, while still ensuring that researchers, advocates, and decis...
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Expunging Juvenile Records: Misconceptions, Collateral Consequences, and Emerging Practices

This bulletin discusses common misconceptions surrounding expungement. It also provides information about the collateral consequences of juvenile reco...
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Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: Revisiting a Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records

In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...
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A Proposal to Allow the Presentation of Mitigation in Juvenile Court so that Juvenile Charges May be Expunged in Appropriate Cases

According to the author of this article, featured in the Pace Law Review, the majority of youth facing charges in delinquency court are suffering...
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Future Interrupted: The Collateral Damage Caused by Proliferation of Juvenile Records

This policy paper, from the Juvenile Law Center, urges that we allow children to grow up unfettered by their childhood mistakes—to have their cou...
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Sealing the Record: An Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations of Juvenile Sex Offender Record Sealing Laws

This paper, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law's Health Matrix Journal of Law-Medicine, will compare competing jurisdictions’ policies...
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What Juvenile Defenders Should Know about the DSM-5

This resource brief, from the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), is intended to support juvenile defense advocacy by providing an overview of s...
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No Clean Slates: Unpacking the Complications of Juvenile Expungements in the Wake of In Re Welfare of J.J.P.

This case note, published in the William Mitchell Law Review, begins with a short history of the juvenile justice system before examining th...
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Juvenile Records: A National Review of State Laws on Confidentiality, Sealing and Expungement

This National Review, from the Juvenile Law Center, provides an overview of state laws and policies on confidentiality, sealing and expungement, and n...

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