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The plight of convicted criminals usually does not elicit much sympathy. Many people will recite the old adage, "If you do the crime, then you do the time." The problem is, when does "doing the time" end? Upon prison release? Completion of probation? Or, as Jacobs (Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts; director, Ctr. for Research in Crime and Justice, New York Univ. Sch. of Law) asserts in this academic work, does the criminal pay throughout the rest of their life? A criminal record is created for every arrest, regardless of whether the arrestee ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More