Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability Crisis
Illinois prisons function as labor-market institutions, designed - at least in part - to specifically exclude Black men from economic...
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A "Labor History" of Mass Incarceration
In order to fully understand the costs of mass incarceration, research on the labor market effects of the carceral state must be truly...
Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions: post-release support structures and...
Evidence-based reentry practices are often ineffective and unhelpful for formerly incarcerated women. This article provides a thorough...
Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal Neglect
The reentry industry, as an extension of the carceral state, is a well-functioning engine of structural and racialized inequity in U.S....
Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”: Criminal Record Questions
There is very little consistency in how questions about criminal records are asked on job applications, or what information is requested....
The Rise of Criminal Background Screening in Rental Housing
The carceral state works with the private sector to carry out the work of social control, extending risk-based logics far beyond prison...
Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2014
The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides detailed information on how criminal record checks are conducted in the United States and its...
Report of the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Information
This fascinating (though outdated) report from the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Information examines...
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...
Do Not (re)enter: The Rise of Criminal Background Tenant Screening as a Violation of the Fair...
More robust and clear guidelines and policies are needed to eliminate discrimination against people with criminal records in housing....
Broken Records Redux: How Errors by Criminal Background Check Companies Continue to Harm...
Because errors in background checks are common and have life-changing consequences, federal and state elected officials should do more...
3 Employment Screening Trends to Know Before You Hire in 2019
Employers are continuing to increase their surveillance of potential and current employees. This article on the Society for Human...
Policing Criminal Justice Data
There is a strong need for oversight and regulation of data compiled and disseminated by the myriad criminal legal systems in the U.S....
Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice
The stigma of criminalization takes on new meaning and heightened consequence when criminal records are online, easily accessible to all...
The Expanding Scope, Use, and Availability of Criminal Records
The production and use of criminal records has increased dramatically in recent years. This article provides a thorough review of the...
The Eternal Criminal Record
How did criminal records go from decentralized collections of local documents used primarily by police, to nationally integrated...
Banning the Box but Keeping the Discrimination?: Disparate Impact and Employers’ Overreliance on....
How can advocates use Title VII disparate impact litigation and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to move more effectively...
Ban the Box, Convictions, and Public Employment
Ban the Box policies do not increase statistical discrimination towards Black men. Contrary to other recent studies, this analysis...
Ban the Box and Perverse Consequences, Part I
Ban the Box laws are helpful for reducing discrimination against people with criminal records as a whole, while also working towards...
The Unintended Consequences of “Ban the Box”: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes...
Ban the Box policies may reduce employment for young Black and Hispanic men with no college degree. This study utilizes Current...
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