Facing Your Criminal Record: Expungement and the Collateral Problem of Wrongfully Represented Self.
While substantial sociolegal research has analyzed the deleterious effects of criminal records on life outcomes, little has examined the records themselves, or their relationship to the people they represent. In this article I take a novel tact, treating criminal records as the material, textual doc...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 73 - 105 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2013
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