2006/12/15 by Megan C. Kurlychek, Robert Brame, Shawn D. Bushway · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
paper · doi:10.1177/0011128706294439
openalex publication_date 2006/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is well accepted that criminal records impose collateral consequences on offenders. Such records affect access to public housing, student financial aid, welfare benefits, and voting rights. An axiom of these policies is that individuals with criminal records—even old criminal records—exhibit significantly higher risk of future criminal conduct than do individuals without criminal records. In this article, the authors use police contact data from the 1942 Racine birth cohort study to determine whether individuals whose last criminal record occurred many years ago exhibit a higher risk of acquiring future criminal records than do individuals with no criminal record at all. Findings suggest that there is little to no distinguishable difference between these groups.