Collateral consequences of criminal records from a cross-national perspective: An introduction.

They explain how this model, strongly protective of privacy and confidentiality, has nonetheless triggered the proliferation of centralised state-performed criminal record screening leading to significant barriers to the re-entry process for people with a criminal record. Keywords: Collateral consequences; comparative criminal justice; comparative criminology; criminal records; policy mobilities EN Collateral consequences comparative criminal justice comparative criminology criminal records policy mobilities 519 527 9 08/25/23 20230901 NES 230901 This special issue is devoted to a constantly growing field of interest within criminology and criminal justice: so-called collateral consequences of criminal records (hereinafter, CCCR). Leandro Gaston and Carlos Carnevale explore the criminal records system in Argentina in the context of recent reforms on criminal record disclosure in Latin America. In fact, ramifications of criminal records represent a major facet of the lived experience of criminal justice-involved individuals who are subject, to a varying degree, to a web of discrimination, exclusion, governance and surveillance (e.g. [46]). [Extracted from the article]