Civil Penalties, Social Consequences

Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo.Teresa A. Miller is Associate Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo.

"The contributors to this volume document a vast structure of civil disabilities that lies beyond the gates of America's alarmingly distended prison system. This mostly invisible system operates to govern large segments of the American population, especially the poor, minorities, and non-citizens, in a form more similar to totalitarian dictatorship than to anything resembling a republican constitution. With the war on terror likely to imbed this system of absolutist rule more deeply into our political and legal institutions, the time for the widest possible discussion and debate on these issues is now." -- Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley"This is a book which challenges and disturbs. It demands to be read by those who place faith in increasingly punitive strategies, and those who seek to resist them." -- Dave Cowan, Professor of Law and Policy, University of Bristol

• 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