(DOWNLOAD) "In the Shadow of a Criminal Record: Proposing a Just Model of Criminal Record Employment Checks (Australia)" by Melbourne University Law Review ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: In the Shadow of a Criminal Record: Proposing a Just Model of Criminal Record Employment Checks (Australia)
- Author : Melbourne University Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 344 KB
Description
[Requests for criminal record checks have increased significantly in recent years as employers focus on risk avoidance in seeking employees with no criminal record. This trend has coincided with local incidents, global fears and hardening 'law and order' agendas. However, there has been no comparable attention given to the implications for the rehabilitation of former offenders, and for discrimination and privacy issues. Employment is fundamental to rehabilitation and reintegration; failure to obtain employment creates a high risk of reoffending. This article examines the role of the law in Australia in facilitating, encouraging and even compelling the making of criminal record checks; the scope of legal mechanisms (such as spent convictions and anti-discrimination regimes) which attempt to balance employer needs with those of former offenders; and the impact of complex, piecemeal and inconsistent laws on issues related to criminal record checks. A new legal framework is proposed, one which seeks to provide a more just model of using criminal record checks in the employment process.] INTRODUCTION