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2017

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Tennessee's For Profit Benefit Corporation Act: Will More Regulation Achieve The Desired Results, Brian Krumm Oct 2017

Tennessee's For Profit Benefit Corporation Act: Will More Regulation Achieve The Desired Results, Brian Krumm

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The Reintegrative State, Joy Radice Jan 2017

The Reintegrative State, Joy Radice

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Public concern has mounted about the essentially permanent stigma created by a criminal record. This is no small problem when the U.S. criminal history database currently stores seventy-seven million criminal records, and poor people and people of color constitute a severely disproportionate number of them. A criminal record makes it harder for people to find housing, get hired, attend college, and reunite with their families. Yet these very things have the greatest chance of helping people lead law-abiding lives and reducing recidivism. Scholars, legislators, and advocates have confronted this problem by arguing for reforms that give people with a conviction …