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dc.contributor.author Jacobs James B.,
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-26T21:45:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-26T21:45:15Z
dc.date.issued 0201.20.15
dc.identifier.citation Jacobs. The eternal criminal record - 1 online resource (xv, 396 pages) - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/781912.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn 0674735846
dc.identifier.isbn 9780674735842
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/178990
dc.description In English.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstract For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person's interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but it has also facilitated the transfer of ever more sensitive information into the public domain. While there are good reasons for a person's criminal past to be public knowledge, records of arrests that fail to result in convictions are of questionable benefit. Simply by placing someone under arrest, a police officer has the power to tag a person with a legal history that effectively incriminates him or her for life. In James Jacobs's view, law-abiding citizens have a right to know when individuals in their community or workplace represent a potential threat. But convicted persons have rights, too. Jacobs closely examines the problems created by erroneous record keeping, critiques the way the records of individuals who go years without a new conviction are expunged, and proposes strategies for eliminating discrimination based on criminal history, such as certifying the records of those who have demonstrated their rehabilitation. -- from dust jacket.
dc.description.tableofcontents Intelligence and investigative databases -- Linking bodies to criminal histories -- Court records -- Privatizing criminal records -- Whether to create a criminal record -- Sealing, purging, and amending conviction records -- Erroneous records problems -- Transparency of criminal convictions -- Public access to arrestee information -- Publicly accessible criminal records and punishment theory -- Criminal justice consequences of a criminal record -- Second-class citizens by law -- Employment discrimination based on a criminal record.
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartofseries De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sozialwissenschaften
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Access control -- United States.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- United States.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Expungement -- United States.
dc.subject.other Politics and Government.
dc.subject.other LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Access control -- United States.
dc.subject.other Criminal records
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Access control.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Access control.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Expungement -- United States.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Expungement.
dc.subject.other Criminal records -- Expungement.
dc.subject.other Social Sciences.
dc.subject.other Sociology, other.
dc.subject.other Sociology.
dc.subject.other Recht.
dc.subject.other SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
dc.subject.other United States.
dc.subject.other Electronic books.
dc.title The eternal criminal record/ James B. Jacobs.
dc.type Book
dc.description.pages 1 online resource (xv, 396 pages)
dc.collection Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id EN05CEBSCO05C2962


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