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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2020
Publication Title
Federal Probation Journal
Volume
84
Issue
3
Abstract
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander drew national attention to the extensive imposition of collateral consequences on those convicted of a crime and to their racially disparate effects. Based on a 2017 national-level YouGov survey, supplemented by a second 2019 YouGov survey, the current study finds that the public is split on allowing ex-offenders to sit on juries, but supportive of removing barriers to voting and employment. The respondents also favored providing defendants with a list of restrictions linked to conviction as well as having lawmakers review and eliminate collateral consequences found to have no purpose and to not reduce crime.
Recommended Citation
Burton, Alexander L.; Burton, Velmer S. Jr.; Cullen, Francis T.; Pickett, Justin T.; Butler, Leah C.; and Thielo, Angela J., "Beyond the New Jim Crow: Public Support for Removing and Regulating Collateral Consequences" (2020). Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 280.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/criminaljusticefacpub/280
Comments
Original publication can be accessed: https://www.uscourts.gov/federal-probation-journal/2020/12/beyond-new-jim-crow-public-support-removing-and-regulating