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929
Abstract
As a general matter [civil disability law] has simply not been rationally designed to accommodate the varied interests of society and the individual convicted person. There has been little effort to evaluate the whole system of disabilities and disqualifications that has grown up. ...As a result, convicted persons are generally subjected to numerous disabilities and disqualifications which have little relation to the crime committed, the person committing it or,consequently, the protection of society. They are often harsh out of all proportion to the crime committed.
Recommended Citation
Thomas R. McCoy,
The Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction,
23 Vanderbilt Law Review
929
(1970)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol23/iss5/1