Distributional Consequences of Expunging Juvenile Delinquency Records: The Problem of Lemons

While it is easy to agree that there may well be a subset of delinquents whose records should be expunged once they have remained free of legal trouble for a certain length of time, states differ on who should decide when expungement is appropriate and on what material should be expunged. These diff...

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Autores principales: Funk, T. Markus (Autor) ; Polsby, Daniel D. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1997
En:Año: 1997
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Sumario:While it is easy to agree that there may well be a subset of delinquents whose records should be expunged once they have remained free of legal trouble for a certain length of time, states differ on who should decide when expungement is appropriate and on what material should be expunged. These differences in turn have a substantial effect upon the distributional consequences that flow from the decision to expunge a given juvenile's record