The Eternal Criminal Record

James B. Jacobs

Published by Harvard University Press 2015

The Eternal Criminal Record

James B. Jacobs

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735842

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About this book

For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have rights too. James Jacobs examines the problem of erroneous records and proposes ways to eliminate discrimination for those who have been rehabilitated.

Author / Editor information

Jacobs James B. :

James B. Jacobs is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts, and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, at New York University School of Law.

Reviews

This is the first sustained and analytic look at profoundly important policy on criminal records. In accessible prose, Jacobs provides a guide for legal and criminal justice scholars, practitioners and advocates, and anyone concerned with privacy, employment policy, and race relations. A very important book.
-- Franklin E. Zimring, University of California, Berkeley

The comprehensiveness of The Eternal Criminal Record is one of its unarguable strengths. It is an ‘everything you want to know’ about records kind of book. James Jacobs is a brilliant policy analyst, carefully and cleverly examining different sides of the criminal records debate.
-- Milton Heumann, Rutgers University

There is probably no better single source of information on the ways in which criminal records are created, stored, shared, and used.
-- Gilad Edelman Washington Monthly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: The Production and Dissemination of Criminal Records Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Intelligence and Investigative Databases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Linking Bodies to Criminal Histories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. Court Records Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
5. Privatizing Criminal Records Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
PART II: Key Policy Issues
6. Whether to Create a Criminal Record Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7. Sealing, Purging, and Amending Conviction Rec ords Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8. Erroneous Records Problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
PART III: U.S. Criminal Record Exceptionalism
9. Transparency of Criminal Convictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10. Public Access to Arrestee Information Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
11. Publicly Accessible Criminal Records and Punishment Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
PART IV: Direct and Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
12. Criminal Justice Consequences of a Criminal Record Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
13. Second- Class Citizens by Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
14. Employment Discrimination Based on a Criminal Record Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
15. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Appendix. Notes. Index
Appendix: Supreme Court Cases Dealing with Criminal Records Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: February 9, 2015
ISBN: 9780674735842