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| BACKGROUND SCREENING

AROUND THE GLOBE, THE USE OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR NON-LEGAL PURPOSES IS RISING.

Through widespread access to criminal records, people are subject to continual scrutiny and reassessment. 

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FBI-based background checks for non criminal justice purposes

Melissa Burch and Carolina Jones Ortiz

While most criminal background checks draw from public court records, since the 70s, Congress has steadily granted more and more access to FBI records. By 2005, nearly half of all FBI-based criminal background checks were conducted for non-criminal justice related purposes.

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How criminal records are stored and shared

Melissa Burch and Carolina Jones Ortiz

While most people have undergone a criminal background check, few understand how criminal records are generated, where the data are held, or how the information gets circulated and shared.

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The Afterlives of Conviction Project documents the human impact of criminal conviction and joins efforts to challenge the discriminatory use of criminal records.

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