Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Collateral Consequences Resource Center explores the extent to which court debt—such as crim...
This report presents national and state-by-state overviews of the nearly 30,000 state and federal consequences of conviction that directly block peopl...
According to this journal article published in the Harvard Law Review, laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of ...
As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
In this paper, from the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, the authors investigate the mechanisms whereby the local and distal in...
This white paper reviews the literature exploring the relationship between family contact and short- and long-term outcomes for youth in the juvenile ...