How Employers Use Criminal Records

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How Employers Use Criminal Records

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Mar 15, 2021

The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks

To what extent do mandatory checks required by government lead to an overall increase in background checks performed by employers? This...

Mar 12, 2021

Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”: Criminal Record Questions

When it comes to questions about criminal records on job applications, there is very little consistency in how the question is asked and...

Mar 12, 2021

Workers with Criminal Records: A Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management and....

The hesitation to hire people with criminal records stems mostly from concerns about general perception of the company as well as legal...

Mar 12, 2021

The Edge of Stigma: An Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment

While misdemeanor convictions still negatively impact a job applicants' employment prospects, they are not as disqualifying as felony...

Mar 12, 2021

Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms

The stigma associated with criminal justice involvement, whether it's a conviction or an arrest, has a significant influence on hiring...

Mar 12, 2021

The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders

Employers who are legally required to run background checks are far less likely to hire someone with a criminal record, compared to...

Mar 12, 2021

Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do

An employer's stated willingness to hire someone with a criminal record does not always match what they actually do when making hiring...

Mar 12, 2021

Is it disqualifying? Practitioner responses to criminal offenses in hiring decisions

There is considerable variance in the factors that impact whether someone with a criminal record will obtain employment, such as age,...

Mar 12, 2021

Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records

Employers who have less guidance on how to assess an applicant with a criminal record rely more on their personal beliefs and...

Mar 12, 2021

The Effect of an Applicant's Criminal History on Employer Hiring Decisions and Screening Practices

According to this 2001 survey of Los Angeles employers , employers are mostly unwilling to hire formerly incarcerated people. Employer...

Mar 12, 2021

Will Employers Hire Former Offenders?: Employer Preference, Background Checks, their Determinants

In the early 90s, most employers were unwilling to hire someone with a criminal record. This study, one of the first and largest of its...

Mar 12, 2021

Criminal record checking and employment: The importance of policy and proximity

Government regulation requiring employers to run criminal background checks and implementing other barriers to employment for people...

Mar 12, 2021

Criminal Records, Positive Employment Credentials, and Race

Job applicants who have felony convictions as well as positive credentials (such as job training, an occupational license, or a reference...

Mar 12, 2021

Criminal Records and Employment: A Survey of Experiences and Attitudes in the United States

The majority of employers ask about criminal records and of those that do, a vast majority (87%) ask about them on the application. This...

Mar 12, 2021

Bad jobs and good workers: The hiring of ex-prisoners in a segmented economy

The most powerful factor in hiring for jobs at the bottom of the labor market is finding workers who are willing to do the work. These...

Mar 12, 2021

Why Do Employers Discriminate Against People With Records? Stigma and the Case for Ban the Box

The stigma of a criminal record has significant influence on employers' decisions not to hire someone with a criminal record, in addition...

Mar 12, 2021

The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment

Even fairly minor felony records have large negative effects on employer callbacks during the application process. This study offers the...

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