Invisible stripes? A field experiment on the disclosure of a criminal record in the british labour market and the potential effects of introducing ban-the-box policies
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- dc.contributor.author Rovira, Martí
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-06T05:39:20Z
- dc.date.available 2024-05-06T05:39:20Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
- dc.description.abstract Labour market discrimination against individuals with criminal records may be unfair, ineffective and counterproductive. This article describes a field experiment designed to indicate whether job applicants disclosing a criminal record in the British labour market have a lower probability of success than equivalent applicants not disclosing criminal records. The research also provides insights into the potential effects of introducing a Ban-The-Box (BTB) policy in the United Kingdom, which would prohibit questions on prior convictions in the first stages of the recruitment process. The results confirm the existence of criminal record discrimination and suggest that introducing a BTB policy would increase job prospects for White applicants with criminal records, but not for members of ethnic minorities.
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- dc.identifier.citation Rovira M. Invisible stripes? A field experiment on the disclosure of a criminal record in the british labour market and the potential effects of introducing ban-the-box policies. Br J Criminol. 2024 Jul;64(4):827-45. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azad063
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad063
- dc.identifier.issn 0007-0955
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60014
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Oxford University Press
- dc.relation.ispartof The British Journal of Criminology. 2024 Jul;64(4):827-45
- dc.rights © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword Ethnicity
- dc.subject.keyword Discrimination
- dc.subject.keyword Ban-The-Box
- dc.subject.keyword Experiment
- dc.subject.keyword United Kingdom
- dc.subject.keyword Criminal records
- dc.title Invisible stripes? A field experiment on the disclosure of a criminal record in the british labour market and the potential effects of introducing ban-the-box policies
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