Civil penalties, social consequences / / edited by Christopher Mele and Teresa A. Miller

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.8/0973
• Soggetto topico: Ex-convicts - Civil rights - United States; Ex-convicts - Legal status, laws, etc - United States; Ex-convicts - United States - Social conditions; Ex-convicts - Government policy - United States; Civil penalties - United States
• Altri autori: MeleChristopher MillerTeresa <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Civil Penalties, Social Consequences; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Collateral Civil Penalties as Techniques of Social Policy; 2. Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction; 3. By Any Means Necessary: Collateral Civil Penalties of Non-U.S. Citizens and the War on Terror; 4. Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons; 5. Battered Women, Battered Again: The Impact of Women's Criminal Records ; 6 A Practitioner's Account of the Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on Incarcerated Persons and Their Families7. Home Sweet Home for Ex-Offenders; 8. The Civil Threat of Eviction and the Regulation and Control of U.S. Public Housing Communities; 9. The Everyday World of House Arrest: Collateral Consequences for Families and Others; 10. Immigration Law as Social Control: How Many People Without Rights Does It Take to Make You Feel Secure?; 11. A Vicious Cycle: Resanctioning Offenders ; 12. Lawyering at the Margins: Collateral Civil Penalties at the Entry and Completion of the Criminal Sentence13. Claiming Our Rights: Challenging Postconviction Penalties Using an International Human Rights Framework; 14. Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts; 15. Civil Disabilities of Former Prisoners in a Constitutional Democracy: Building on the South African Experience; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and housing opportunities. This much-needed work contains pieces by scholars in law, criminology, and sociology, including: Scott Christianson, Michael Lichter, and Daniel Kanstroom.
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil penalties, social consequences
• ISBN: 1-136-07650-6; 1-283-96522-4; 0-203-61983-8; 1-136-07642-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786148203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II