Collateral consequences of criminal records from a cross-national perspective: An introduction
| Published date | 01 September 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231174109 |
| Author | Alessandro Corda,Marti Rovira,Elina van ’t Zand-Kurtovic |
| Date | 01 September 2023 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231174109
Criminology & Criminal Justice
2023, Vol. 23(4) 519 –527
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Collateral consequences of
criminal records from a
cross-national perspective:
An introduction
Alessandro Corda
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Marti Rovira
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Elina van ’t Zand-Kurtovic
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Keywords
Collateral consequences, comparative criminal justice, comparative criminology, criminal
records, policy mobilities
This special issue is devoted to a constantly growing field of interest within criminology
and criminal justice: so-called collateral consequences of criminal records (hereinafter,
CCCR). Criminal justice–involved individuals face burdensome legal and social barriers
and disabilities that exist because of their prior contacts with the criminal legal system
(Demleitner, 1999; Jacobs, 2006, 2015; Larrauri, 2014).1 Collateral consequences can be
both formal and informal in nature. The first CCCR category − so-called de jure collat-
eral consequences − includes sanctions, restrictions and disqualifications that attach to a
criminal record which have either a statutory or regulatory basis. These consequences
Corresponding author:
Alessandro Corda, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Main Site Tower, University Square, Belfast
BT7 1NN, UK.
Email: A.Corda@qub.ac.uk
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