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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fundamental Rights and Legal Consequences of Criminal Conviction by Edited by Dr Sonja Meijer Edited by Dr Harry Annison Edited by Dr Ailbhe OLoughlin
This book explores the nature and extent of the legal consequences of criminal convictions in Europe Australia and the USA. What legal consequences can a criminal conviction have? How do these consequences affect convicted offenders? And how can and should these consequences be limited by law?Legal consequences often are not formally part of the criminal law so can be obscured from judges as well as from defendants and their legal representatives in the courtroom. The breadth severity longevity and often hidden nature of these restrictions raises the question of whether offenders’ fundamental rights are sufficiently protected.