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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Virtual Event, December 12-14, 2020, Proceedings

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A Tool for Narrowing the Second Chance Gap

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_11,
        author={Navid Shaghaghi and Zuyan Huang and Hithesh Sekhar Bathala and Connor Azzarello and Anthony Chen and Colleen V. Chien},
        title={A Tool for Narrowing the Second Chance Gap},
        proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Virtual Event, December 12-14, 2020, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
        year={2021},
        month={5},
        keywords={Criminal records expungement Digital humanity Justice Legal technology Paper prisons Petitioning Rule engine Second chance gap},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_11}
    }
    
  • Navid Shaghaghi
    Zuyan Huang
    Hithesh Sekhar Bathala
    Connor Azzarello
    Anthony Chen
    Colleen V. Chien
    Year: 2021
    A Tool for Narrowing the Second Chance Gap
    INTETAIN
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_11
Navid Shaghaghi1,*, Zuyan Huang1, Hithesh Sekhar Bathala1, Connor Azzarello1, Anthony Chen1, Colleen V. Chien2
  • 1: Ethical, Pragmatic, and Intelligent Computing (EPIC) Laboratory, Santa Clara University
  • 2: Santa Clara Law School, Santa Clara University
*Contact email: nshaghaghi@scu.edu

Abstract

The United States has the largest prison population in the world with more than 650,000 ex-offenders released from prison every year, according to the United States Department of Justice. But even after time has been served, criminal records persist, limiting their bearer’s ability to qualify for job, rental, loan, volunteering, and other opportunities available to citizens. It is thus not surprising that the US Department of Justice also reports that approximately two-thirds of those released are rearrested within three years of release. In recent years, many laws have been passed to shield past criminal records from future background checks. The Second Chance Gap Initiative at the Santa Clara University’s Law School (paperprisons.org) uses empirical research and analysis to draw attention to the millions of Americans that remain stuck in “the second chance gap” of being eligible for but not receiving their second chance in the realms of expungement, reinfranchisement, and resentencing. In the case of criminal records, it finds that tens of millions of people that have completed their formal sentences are stuck in a “paper prison,”s held back, not by steel bars but bureaucratic and related hurdles that prevent them from assessing a cleaned record. In support of this initiative, the SCU Ethical, Pragmatic, and Intelligent Computing (EPIC) laboratory has developed a flexible tool for ascertaining expungement eligibility. The project hopes to assist those seeking to determine if they qualify via a user-friendly web application containing a rule engine for expungement qualification determination.

Keywords
Criminal records expungement Digital humanity Justice Legal technology Paper prisons Petitioning Rule engine Second chance gap
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2021-05-19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_11
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