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来源类型 | Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA1360-1 |
来源ID | RR-A1360-1 |
Providing Another Chance: Resetting Recidivism Risk in Criminal Background Checks | |
Shawn D. Bushway; Brian G. Vegetabile; Nidhi Kalra; Lee Remi; Greg Baumann | |
发表日期 | 2022-01-06 |
出版年 | 2022 |
页码 | 104 |
语种 | 英语 |
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摘要 | Criminal background checks are commonly used in the United States to screen people for various opportunities, including employment. The evaluations operate on a broadly accepted assumption that past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior. ,Contrary to popular belief, however, most who enter the criminal justice system ultimately desist from crime. The risk of recidivism declines the longer a person is in the community and does not commit a crime. Eventually, a past criminal record is no longer predictive of future convictions. ,However, most background checks do not adequately account for the time someone spends in the community without a new conviction. Not having updated information may skew the risk assessment to make people look riskier than they are, resulting in denied opportunities. ,The authors describe how background checks can be improved to include information about time spent in the community, thereby more accurately reflecting risk of recidivism. They suggest that any viable risk-assessment instrument used in background checks should reset the assessment of recidivism risk to the time of the background check and not the time of conviction, as current methods derived from the criminal justice context do. The authors call this the reset principle. If models based on the reset principle are developed into tools that employers and others can use to assess recidivism risk, they may offer a more accurate way to distinguish candidates' risk of recidivism. Thus, they may offer many with criminal histories a way to demonstrate that they should be offered another chance. |
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主题 | Criminal Justice ; Employment and Unemployment ; Recidivism |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1360-1.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/524669 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shawn D. Bushway,Brian G. Vegetabile,Nidhi Kalra,et al. Providing Another Chance: Resetting Recidivism Risk in Criminal Background Checks. 2022. |
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