Criminal convictions and cautions

State Forfeiture Rules and Federal Review of State Criminal Convictions

The Admissibility of Criminal Convictions in Subsequent Civil Proceedings

Teenage childbirth and young adult criminal convictions: A quasi-experimental study of criminal outcomes for teenage mothers.

PURPOSE Teenage childbirth is associated with poor psychosocial outcomes for teen mothers. One example is that teen mothers have higher rates of antisocial behavior. The extant research has not been able to determine if teenage motherhood is independently associated with criminal behavior, or if the association is due to selection factors associated with both teenage childbirth and criminal beh...

Judicial Rehabilitation in Germany – The Use of Criminal Records and the Removal of Recorded Convictions

This paper has two aims: First, it will explore the German legal system of central data collection on convicted offenders, the limited access to the data stored and the different modes of removing data. This exploration will be linked to the question of re-socialisation as a right of the offender and, more practically, to his ‘real life chances’ of finding a workplace as a decisive element of t...

A national Swedish longitudinal twin-sibling study of criminal convictions from adolescence through early adulthood.

BACKGROUND Prior twin and adoption studies have demonstrated the importance of both genetic and shared environmental factors in the etiology of criminal behavior (CB). However, despite substantial interest in life-course theories of CB, few genetically informative studies have examined CB in a developmental context. METHOD In 69,767 male-male twin pairs and full-sibling pairs with ≤ 2 years' ...