Civil Penalties Social Consequences

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. Introduction by Christopher Mele and Teresa A. Miller 1. Collateral Civil Penalties as Techniques of Social Policy by Christopher Mele and Teresa A. Miller 2. Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction by Gabriel J. Chin 3. By Any Means Necessary: Collateral Civil Penalties of Non-U.S. Citizens and the War on Terror by Teresa A. Miller 4. Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons by Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza 5. Battered Women, Battered Again: The Impact of Women's Criminal Records by Amy E. Hirsch 6. A Practitioner's Account of the Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on Incarcerated Persons and their Families by Stephanie S. Franklin 7. Home Sweet Home for Ex-Offenders by Elizabeth Curtin 8. The Civil Threat of Eviction and the Regulation and Control of U.S. Public Housing Communities by Christopher Mele 9. The Everyday World of House Arrest: Collateral Consequences for Families and Others by William G. Staples 10. Immigration Law as Social Control: How Many People Without Rights Does It Take to Make You Feel Secure? by Daniel Kanstroom 11. A Vicious Cycle: Resanctioning Offenders by Nora V. Demleitner 12. Lawyering at the Margins: Collateral Civil Penalties at the Entry and Completion of the Criminal Sentence by Lucian E. Ferster and Santiago Aroca 13. Claiming Our Rights: Challenging Postconviction Penalties Using an International Human Rights Framework by Patricia Allard 14. Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts by Debra Parkes 15. Civil Disabilities of Former Prisoners in a Constitutional Democracy: Building on the South African Experience by Dirk van Zyl Smit