{"id":59297,"date":"2013-12-03T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=59297"},"modified":"2017-09-17T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T17:30:20","slug":"the-difference-between-criminals-and-non-criminals-getting-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/03\/the-difference-between-criminals-and-non-criminals-getting-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Criminals and Non-Criminals? Getting Caught."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What separates those with a criminal record from the rest of the population? \u00a0According to lawyer Emily Baxter, not a whole lot. \u00a0Baxter\u2019s new project\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareallcriminals.org\/\">We Are All Criminals<\/a>\u201d\u00a0examines the illegal activities committed by people without a criminal record. \u00a0In Minnesota, 1 out of 4 residents has a criminal record, but Baxter\u2019s project, she says on her website, is about the 75% that \u201cgot away, and how very different their lives may have been had they been caught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0Many 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<p>Executive director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis Michael Friedman is intrigued by the project, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\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<p>The most intriguing part of her project lies in its look at society as a whole. \u00a0Imagine if we had all been prosecuted for every crime we committed, even as a juvenile. \u00a0What would the crime rate look like then?<\/p>\n<p><em>The author, <strong>Kat Albrecht<\/strong>, is an editorial assistant for The Society Pages. She is currently an undergraduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Minnesota. The artist,\u00a0<strong>Emily Baxter<\/strong>,\u00a0is the Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at the Council on Crime and Justice. \u00a0<\/em><em>Cross-posted at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/2013\/11\/12\/squeaky-clean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citings and Sightings<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What separates those with a criminal record from the rest of the population? \u00a0According to lawyer Emily Baxter, not a whole lot. \u00a0Baxter\u2019s new project\u00a0\u201cWe Are All Criminals\u201d\u00a0examines the illegal activities committed by people without a criminal record. \u00a0In Minnesota, 1 out of 4 residents has a criminal record, but Baxter\u2019s project, she says on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":59698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,293],"class_list":["post-59297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/The-Difference-Between.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59297"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71420,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59297\/revisions\/71420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}