A Comparative Study on the Juvenile Criminal Records Sealing System Between China and the United States

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.527How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Criminal Records, Previous convictions, Confidentiality, Expungement

Abstract

The Illinois Juvenile Court Act, the world’s first law that stipulates the sealing system of juvenile criminal records, was born in Illinois in 1899. In 2012, China formally established the juvenile criminal records sealing system, which is quite different from that of the United States in terms of concept, procedure, and content. Judging from the original intention of the legislation and judicial practice of this system in China, there exist mechanization and simplification of the “sealing” characteristics. Meanwhile, learning from the development path of the juvenile criminal records sealing system in the United States, there are always conflicts and coordination between juveniles’ privacy rights and information disclosure. In the subsequent improvement and practice of the juvenile criminal records sealing system in China, the balance between the protection of juvenile criminals and the insurance of societal stability should also be better considered.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Yifan Wu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - A Comparative Study on the Juvenile Criminal Records Sealing System Between China and the United States
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
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SN  - 2352-5398
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