Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
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...
This article, from the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, addresses the problems faced by individuals who have been harmed by the continued availa...
This article, from the Fordham Law Review, argues that scholarly discussions related to prosecutorial discretion need to extend their focus beyond 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 Article, from the Howard Law Journal, challenges the conventional wisdom that public access and dissemination of criminal history information rai...
This paper, from the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, begins by drawing on theories of ascription, stigma, and cumulative advantage/disadvantage a...
This is Article, from the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, is the second Article stemming from a study of the post-release behavior of wrong...
