Need Not Apply: The Racial Disparate Impact of Pre-Employment Criminal Background Checks
The Fair Credit Reporting Act should be amended to prohibit the general use of criminal background checks in the hiring process due to...
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Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment
Some argue Ban the Box policies are harmful to Black men: prior to BTB, white applicants were 7% more likely than comparable Black...
'...Yeah, I could hire this one, but I know it's gonna be a problem': How Race, Nativity and....
Employers have much more positive perceptions of Latino immigrant workers compared to Black workers, based on their beliefs that...
Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal....
Racism and criminal records play a significant role in whether interpersonal interactions with employers are helpful to job applicants....
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Black applicants without criminal records are considered to be on the same playing field by employers as white applicants with a criminal...
Race, Place, and Crime: How Violent Crime Events Affect Employment Discrimination
Employer exposure to recent violent crime negatively impacts Black job applicants, regardless of whether they possess a criminal...
Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers
Employers who run criminal background checks are more likely to hire Black men than those that don't conduct background checks,...
Criminal History, Sex, and Employment: Sex Differences in Ex-Offender Hiring Stigma
The sex of the hiring official may impact the level of racial discrimination involved in hiring people with criminal records. This...
Barriers to Reintegration: An Audit Study of the Impact of Race and Offender Status on Employment...
Criminal records may not create as much of a disadvantage in employment for women as they do for men. This audit study uses fictional...
Criminal Stigma, Race, Gender and Employment: An Expanded Assessment of the Consequences of....
People with criminal records are much less likely to be hired than those without and Black and Latino applicants are generally viewed as...
“It’s Hard Out Here if You’re a Black Felon”: A Critical Examination of Black Male Reentry
Black men with criminal records experience intersectional oppression. Utilizing a critical ethnography lens and interviews with nine...
Structural Inequality and Social Support for Women Prisoners Released to Rural Communities
Reentry programs will not be successful unless they also address institutional and structural inequities making it easier for women to...
I Do What I’m Told, Sort of: Reformed Subjects, Unruly Citizens, and Parole
People under parole supervision are more inclined to 'comply' with parole requirements when they can do so on their own terms. Based on...
“Me and the Law is Not Friends”: How Former Prisoners Make Sense of Reentry
Simply having all the right resources isn't enough to make a person want a different life. Indeed, decisions to participate in criminal...
The Expanding Prisoner Reentry Industry
Reentry agencies should be trying to work themselves out of a job if they want to call themselves successful. This article discusses the...
Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and A New Way of Life
Providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to heal from their experiences through critical knowledge and thinking about...
Social Capital Among Women Offenders: Examining the Distribution of Social Networks and Resources
The less education and income a formerly incarcerated woman has, the less social capital she is likely to have, which is defined here as...
Rejection, Humiliation, and Parole: A Study of Parolees' Perspectives
Feelings of humiliation and rejection often impact a person's identity reconstruction while attempting to reintegrate into society after...
The System Is Not Broken, It Is Intentional: The Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate....
Reentry programs provide "the illusion of assistance" but in reality operate to extend the reach of the carceral state and maintain,...
Making it on the Outside: Understanding Barriers to Women’s Post-Incarceration Reintegration
The demands on women to be considered 'successful' in reentry are often competing with and exacerbated by the gendered inequities women...
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