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When is it Safe To Hire Someone With a Criminal Record?

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 28-MAY-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
New Carnegie Mellon Study Provides Empirical Basis For Employers To Use in Assessment of Prior Criminal Records

PITTSBURGH, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a model for providing empirical evidence on when an ex-convict has been "clean" long enough to be considered "redeemed" for employment purposes.

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The new study, which appears in the current issue of Criminology, estimates that after five years of staying clean an individual with a criminal record is of no greater risk of committing another crime than other individuals of the same age. The research comes at a time when...

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