Integrating relations and criminal background to identifying key individuals in crime networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 113405
Author(s):  
Fredy Troncoso ◽  
Richard Weber
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Background

How Did We Get Here? An Examination of Opioid Addiction from A Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
Ralph Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Drug Prescribing ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
The Cost

America is facing a drug crisis that is rocking the nation at the cost of one trillion dollars since former President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs more than 40 years ago in 1971.  This latest opioid crisis can be identified as the war on drugs 2.0. Research supports that the American public is not interested in fighting the war on drugs; it is interested in creating viable intervention programs that are effective in treating drug addiction and education programs for the drug prescribing medical community. Results revealed statistically significant differences between socioeconomic status and race, family status and criminal background, family status and criminal background related to a drug background, and family status and equally offering drug treatment options.

Life after Life Imprisonment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Liem
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Informal Social Control ◽  
Life Imprisonment ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
Widespread Availability

Chapter seven explores the initial impacts of re-entering a world these lifers left many years ago. The chapter highlights specific roadblocks to re-entry. These include the ‘felon label’, the implications stigma, labeling, and the widespread availability of criminal background checks. These factors prevent lifers from obtaining housing and employment. The chapter discusses how interviewees managed the stigma of being an ex-offender. Deriving indicators from life-course theories, the chapter further details how relationships with family, intimate partners and children influenced the interviewees over the years. By being in prison for decades, these lifers have been removed from structures that favor maturation and provide sources of informal social control, such as employment, intimate relationships, family relationships and parenthood. Prison, in this view, has disrupted their journey of going straight.

Criminal Background Checks: Necessary Admission Criteria?

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Burns ◽  
Marilyn Frank-Stromborg ◽  
Yan Teytelman ◽  
Jay Denver Herren
Keyword(s):  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background

scholarly journals HOW STATES CHANGED REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSISTED LIVING STAFF SINCE 2003

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S441-S441
Author(s):  
Paula Carder ◽  
Sarah Dys
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Direct Care Staff ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Human Resource Policies ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
Future Policy

Abstract In 2003, the Assisted Living Workgroup (ALW) published quality improvement recommendations for states’ regulations, including 26 regarding staffing/workforce. We reviewed states’ 2003 and current regulations to identify the presence of ALW standards. Over half of states’ regulations reflect 7 of the 26 staffing/workforce recommendations. Those most often added after 2003 concern criminal background checks, with a 58.8 percent increase in states that added federal background checks and use of criminal background checks to inform hiring. At least 40 states’ regulations reflect the ALW recommendations for administrator and direct care staff training. Very few states require staff performance evaluations (n=13), human resource policies to improve retention (n=1), or management practices to improve retention (0). The 10 ALW recommendations concerning staff who administer medications have been adopted by fewer than 23 states. These findings can inform future policy analysis and research on staffing/workforce in assisted living communities.

scholarly journals Criminal background and job performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Minor ◽  
Nicola Persico ◽  
Deborah M. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Criminal Background

scholarly journals The Shade of a Criminal Record

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 237802311668956
Author(s):  
Steven L. Foy ◽  
Victor Ray ◽  
Ashley Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Social Indicators ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Criminal History ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Racial Classification ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Criminal Background

Recent high-profile research suggests that social indicators like incarceration influence racial categorization. Yet, this research has largely ignored colorism—intraracial differences in skin tone that matter for stratification outcomes. In two experiments, we address how skin tone interacts with criminal background to produce external racial classification and skin tone attributions. We find no evidence that criminal history affects external racial classification or skin tone attribution. However, we find that skin tone is a strong and consistent predictor of external racial classification and skin tone attribution.

Criminal Records, Positive Credentials and Recidivism: Incorporating Evidence of Rehabilitation Into Criminal Background Check Employment Decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Denver
Keyword(s):  
Program Completion ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Background Check ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
Initial Denial

Decision makers increasingly incorporate “evidence of rehabilitation” into criminal background checks. Positive credentials can decrease criminal record stigma and improve employment outcomes, but we lack research on whether rehabilitative factors used in such assessments are correlated with recidivism. The current study examines more than 1,000 state-mandated criminal background checks in the rapidly growing health care sector. Everyone in the sample received an initial denial and requested reconsideration by submitting evidence of rehabilitation. The findings indicate prior employer recommendations and program completion are positively correlated with clearance to work, but conditional on contesting in the first place, none of the evidence of rehabilitation factors are negatively correlated with recidivism. Persistently pursuing an employment opportunity through a contestation process may, in itself, signal rehabilitation and lower risk.

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