Does Banning People With Felonies From Dating Apps Actually Make Anyone Safer?

Authors

Jenny M. Roberts, American University Washington College of LawFollow
Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project

Abstract

[quote] “You could have someone with an old drug conviction, and how is it keeping anyone safer to ban them?” said Jenny Roberts, a law professor at American University who studies collateral consequences. “But a current drug user in a nice neighborhood that police aren’t policing, they’re allowed on that website. It creates a false sense of security.”

Repository Citation

Jenny M. Roberts & Keri Blakinger, Does Banning People With Felonies From Dating Apps Actually Make Anyone Safer?, (2021).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/400