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The collateral consequences of criminal legal association during jury selection
Law & Society Review ( IF 2.592 ) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 , DOI: 10.1111/lasr.12629
Matthew Clair 1 , Alix S. Winter 2
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How does a potential juror's association with the criminal legal system matter during jury selection? Growing scholarship examines statutory exclusions of people with felony convictions, sometimes characterizing felon-juror exclusion as a collateral consequence of mass incarceration. Less research has considered whether court officials seek to exclude potential jurors based on lower-level forms of contact or perceived association. We draw on interviews with 103 lawyers and judges in a Northeastern state to examine how court officials think about juror bias in relation to criminal legal association beyond felon status. We find that court officials often seek to remove people perceived to be offenders with lower-level forms of system association as well as people perceived to be crime victims. These exclusionary efforts extend to also exclude perceived offenders' and victims' social networks. These practices are racialized and gendered, likely contributing to the systematic exclusion of marginalized racial/ethnic groups and women. This article expands the collateral consequences literature in two ways: first, by revealing how collateral consequences can be conceptualized not just in relation to people criminalized by the law but also in relation to those whom the law constructs as victims; and second, by underscoring how collateral consequences feed back into the system to reproduce its unequal administration.

中文翻译:

陪审团选择过程中刑事法律协会的附带后果

在陪审团选择过程中,潜在陪审员与刑事法律制度的关系有何影响?越来越多的学者研究对重罪定罪者的法定排除,有时将重罪陪审员排除描述为大规模监禁的附带后果。很少有研究考虑法院官员是否试图根据较低级别的接触形式或感知关联来排除潜在的陪审员。我们通过对美国东北部一个州的 103 名律师和法官的访谈,来研究法院官员如何看待陪审员偏见与重罪身份以外的刑事法律关联有关。我们发现法院官员经常试图将被认为是具有较低级别系统关联形式的罪犯的人以及被认为是犯罪受害者的人。这些排他性努力还延伸到排除被认为是罪犯和受害者的社交网络。这些做法是种族化和性别化的,可能导致被边缘化的种族/族裔群体和妇女被系统地排斥。本文从两个方面扩展了附带后果的文献:首先,通过揭示附带后果的概念化不仅与被法律定罪的人有关,而且与那些被法律认定为受害者的人有关;其次,通过强调附带后果如何反馈到系统中以重现其不平等的管理。
更新日期:2022-11-18
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