, a strikingly high number compared with many other countries. Now, a new study reveals one of the implications of that figure:
Because the justice system in the United States is highly fragmented, there’s no centralized repository of criminal history records. “[The data] is public by law, yet it is extraordinarily difficult to collect,” says Michael Romano, a criminal law researcher at Stanford Law School who was not involved in the new study.
and slightly more than 46% had a conviction, the team reported yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS and online today in “It’s pretty staggering,” Romano says. “I would not have guessed that such a high number of people who are unemployed have a criminal background … it’s really eye-opening.” The explanation, the authors say, is that although racism influences hiring, discrimination based on criminal history may be even more potent. “People [with criminal histories] are being segregated into certain jobs and in certain industries, and are unable to advance their careers … many, many years after they have a record,” Bushway says.
Locking people up is big business in the UNITED STATES
I would suspect if our police force was any good the figures in South Africa would be similar or worse with ANC politicians featuring prominently CyrilRamaphosa SAPoliceService DIRCO_ZA NPA_Prosecutes FBI UNinSouthAfrica ANCParliament PresJGZuma DZumaSambudla FCDOGovUK
In Norway employers generally cannot look at police records of job applicants (except for specific jobs such as guards and teachers). The re-offence rate after prison is way lower in Norway versus US (20% versus 75% after 5 years).
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