资格刑是剥夺犯罪人行使一定权利的资格的刑罚。在美国,刑满释放、假释或者解除缓刑考验并不意味着惩罚的结束,因为每个州在不同程度上都禁止曾犯有重罪的人行使自由公民的一些最基本的权利,这些基本权利包括从选举权到受国家雇佣权等不同的权利。而包容内容最为广泛的资格刑正是剥夺公民能力。 Qualification sentence is to deprive the perpetrator of the exercise of certain rights of the penalty. In the United States, the release of sentence of imprisonment, parole or the suspension of probation does not mean the end of punishment because, to varying degrees, each State prohibits some of the most basic rights of freed citizens to have committed felony crimes. These basic rights include From the right to vote by the state employment rights and other different rights. The most widely accepted inclusion penalty is deprivation of citizenship.