{"id":4514,"date":"2013-11-12T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T04:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:40:02","slug":"squeaky-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/11\/12\/squeaky-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeaky Clean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Emily Baxter from “We Are All Criminals”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What separates those with a criminal record from the rest of the population? According to lawyer Emily Baxter, not a whole lot. Baxter\u2019s new project \u201cWe Are All Criminals,\u201d<\/a> highlighted in a recent StarTribune<\/i> article<\/a> and a post on Public Criminology<\/a> by Chris Uggen, examines the illegal activities committed by people without a criminal record. In Minnesota, 1 out of 4 residents has a criminal record, but Baxter’s project, she says on her website, is about the 75% that “got away, and how very different their lives may have been had they been caught.”<\/p>\n

By emphasizing the crimes of the unconvicted, Baxter blurs the lines between criminal and noncriminal and draws attention to the detrimental effects that a criminal record has on the lives of those who are convicted. Many of the undocumented and unpunished transgressions confessed through her project were committed when the perpetrators were juveniles, many of whom are now lawyers, doctors, and professionals.<\/p>\n

Executive director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis Michael Friedman is intrigued by the project, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve come across anybody who has not committed crimes as a juvenile,\u201d Friedman said. \u201cAllowing society to use juvenile criminal records as a marker for someone\u2019s potential success, or risk for employment or opportunity, is not scientific. It\u2019s dangerous and discriminatory.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most intriguing part of her project lies in its look at society as a whole. Imagine if we had all been prosecuted for every crime we committed, even as a juvenile. What would the crime rate look like then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What separates those with a criminal record from the rest of the population? According to lawyer Emily Baxter, not a whole lot. Baxter\u2019s new project \u201cWe Are All Criminals,\u201d highlighted in a recent StarTribune article and a post on Public Criminology by Chris Uggen, examines the illegal activities committed by people without a criminal record. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1946,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[39116,24924,24925],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-crime","tag-criminal-record","tag-noncriminal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/11\/ShyAtty1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}