Distributional Consequences of Expunging Juvenile Delinquency Records: The Problem of Lemons

Authors

T. Markus Funk, Oxford University
Daniel D. Polsby, Northwestern University

Publication Title

Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law

Abstract

While it is easy to agree that there may well be a subset of delinquents whose records should be expunged once they have remained free of legal trouble for a certain length of time, states differ on who should decide when expungement is appropriate and on what material should be expunged. These differences in turn have a substantial effect upon the distributional consequences that flow from the decision to expunge a given juvenile's record.

Recommended Citation

T. Markus Funk and Daniel D. Polsby, Distributional Consequences of Expunging Juvenile Delinquency Records: The Problem of Lemons, 52 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 161 (1997)
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_urbanlaw/vol52/iss1/14