Redeemed compared to whom?: comparing the distributional properties of arrest risk across populations of provisional employees with and without a criminal record
By using data on provisional employees with and without criminal records, we find that existing standards of a “reasonable amount of [arrest] risk” (derived from “time to redemption” research) for an employer to incur in hiring individuals with criminal histories prove too onerous for many employees...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Criminology & public policy
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 963-997 |
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| Summary: | By using data on provisional employees with and without criminal records, we find that existing standards of a “reasonable amount of [arrest] risk” (derived from “time to redemption” research) for an employer to incur in hiring individuals with criminal histories prove too onerous for many employees without records to meet, let alone those with records. We then propose an alternative method of assessing arrest risk across these populations—benchmarking—and provide several alternative standards, illustrating that they (a) clear a demonstrable majority of employees without records and a sizable minority of those with a criminal history and (b) do not increase the risk incurred by employers over and above the level they already accept among employees without records. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-9133 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1745-9133.12309 |