The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks

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• dc.contributor.author Rovira, Martí
• dc.contributor.author Radosevic, Aleksandar
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-06T05:39:12Z
• dc.date.available 2024-05-06T05:39:12Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract The use of criminal background checks (CBCs) – requests for information on previous convictions during the employment recruitment process – is growing worldwide. This article seeks to explain the proliferation in CBCs by examining whether novel legislation introducing mandatory requests for some jobs also leads to an increase in requests for CBCs for jobs outside the scope of the law. The present research makes use of survey data collected from individuals requesting criminal records certificates before and after the introduction of new CBC regulation in Spain – EU Directive 93/2011/EU – which established the obligation to request a criminal record certificate covering sexual crimes for jobs involving frequent contact with children. The analysis detects only a small and unsustained growth in non-mandatory checks following introduction of the new law. However, the results suggest that the danger of the new legislation lies in employers requesting certificates with a higher level of disclosure than is required for the positions on which checks were made mandatory by the new law. In addition, the growth in non-mandatory CBCs observed during this period seems to be related not to the new legislation but to the emergence of tech companies, raising alarm regarding the role of novel forms of policy mobility and the new collaborative economy in limiting the re-entry of individuals with criminal records to the labour market.
• dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was conducted as part of the projects ‘Invisible stripes? A field experiment on the mark of a criminal record in the British labour market’ supported by the British Academy (Ref PF19\100020), ‘Ejecución y supervisión de la pena: Calidad de la intervención, legitimidad y reincidencia’ supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER, UE (Grant DER2015-64403-P) and ‘Red de Excelencia EmpiriC: Desarrollo de un modelo criminológico y empírico de la política criminal’ supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Ref. DER2017-90552-REDT).
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• dc.identifier.citation Rovira M. The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks. European Journal of Criminology. 2022 Nov;19(6):1386-402. DOI: 10.1177/1477370820977880
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370820977880
• dc.identifier.issn 1477-3708
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60011
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof European Journal of Criminology. 2022 Nov;19(6):1386-402
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/DER2015-64403-P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/DER2017-90552-REDT
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Criminal background checks
• dc.subject.keyword Criminal records
• dc.subject.keyword Tech companies
• dc.subject.keyword Policy mobility
• dc.title The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion