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...

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Published in:	Law & Society Review Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 73 - 105
Main Author:	Myrick, Amy
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Mar2013
Subjects:	United States Criminal records Arrest Symbolic interactionism Depersonalization Group identity Criminal justice system Criminal justice system & ethics
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