Providing Another Chance: Resetting Recidivism Risk in Criminal Background Checks

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background

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.

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.

Criminal Background Checks Part 1: Implications on Employment

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Celest Weuve ◽  
Malissa Martin ◽  
Gerard White
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background

Criminal Background Checks Part 2: Implications for Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Celest Weuve ◽  
Malissa Martin ◽  
Gerard White
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background

scholarly journals Criminal Background Checks Upon Acceptance to Medical School: The Right Policy at the Right Time

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (7) ◽  
pp. 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Piraino ◽  
Matthew Stull ◽  
Chenits Pettigrew ◽  
John Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals How “Safe” Should Libraries Be?

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-24
Author(s):  
Brian Sturm
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
American Society ◽  
Individual Security ◽  
Contemporary American Society

Contemporary American society seems fraught with concern over our lack of “safety” – whether in the form of national security (USAPATRIOT Act, fighting terrorism internally and abroad, building the nation’s economic underpinnings, etc.) or individual security (identitytheft, Child Internet Protection Act, criminal background checks available online, etc.). We are both fascinated and frightened by the growing global community and the global information infrastructure, and we are struggling to find our place in it: individually, socially, ethically, and legally. Safety has turned from an American assumption into the consuming American question, and this change is transforming our culture, for good and for ill.

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