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Issues Related to the Employability of Ex-Convicts: An Annotated Bibliography
1. Bushway, S.D. (2004). Labor Market Effects of Permitting Employer Access to Criminal History Records. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 20(3), 276-291.
In this article, Bushway immerses himself in testing the proposition that groups of persons with high rates of incarceration such as the Latino and African American males receive meagre earnings when the employers are not given the permit to view their history of criminal records. Adopting a plain economic picture, he argues employers lower the wages of their employees when they consider that criminal records influence the productivity of employees. He comments that employers lower the wages of employees or a whole group as a method of reducing the impacts of employing people with a criminal record. To support his argument, he cites from a research done by pager which indicates discrimination based on past criminal records and race. Bushway closes his argument by saying that individuals with past criminal records should not be hired.
2. Harris, P.M. & Keller, K.S. (2005). Ex-Offenders Need Not Apply. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 21(1), 6-30.
In this book, the authors single out direct and indirect obstacles to the hiring of individuals with criminal records. Direct obstacles consist of laws and occupational code licensing demands; indirect obstacles consist of laws that enable employers not to hire jobseekers with past criminal records. Although the authors note that incidents of criminal records alone cannot project the risk of workplace crime by employees with a criminal record, employers prefer not employing people with past criminal records based on their below average productivity and their attitude towards the job they are in.
3. Holzer, H.J., Raphael, S. & Stoll, M.A. (2003). Employer Demand for Ex-Offenders: Recent Evidence from Los Angeles. Discussion Paper No. 1268-03, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
This article looks into the hiring behavior of employers toward jobseekers with a past criminal record. The authors did a survey across the whole area of Los Angeles and found out that the drive of hiring individuals is very low among the employers. They also discovered that employers who reported as being willing to employ individuals with criminal records are likely not to do so. The whole study discovered that jobseekers who have been incarcerated in the past are likely not hired as employers prefer individuals without any criminal record.
4. The Washington Post. Halperin, Alex. January 16, 2011./wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14...