Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
This journal article examines how to protect the benefits for youth of destroying records, while still ensuring that researchers, advocates, and decis...
In an effort to argue for automatic pardons, this paper out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Connecticut'...
According to this journal article published in the Harvard Law Review, laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of ...
This journal article out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Washington's “expungements” to determine the sh...
This journal article from Sonja B. Starr argues that Arizona should adopt an expungement law, ideally joining the “Clean Slate” movement to make expun...
This report argues that Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Act is both important and necessary because of the assistance it provides, even with the current is...
As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
This article, from the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, addresses the problems faced by individuals who have been harmed by the continued availa...
