{"id":14,"date":"2005-07-12T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/07\/12\/ex-felon-employment-and-expungement\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:38:00","slug":"ex-felon-employment-and-expungement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/07\/12\/ex-felon-employment-and-expungement\/","title":{"rendered":"ex-felon employment and expungement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/crimprof_blog\/\">crimprof<\/a> blog cites the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/state\/la-me-cons10jul10,1,6421508.story?coll=la-news-state&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">LA Times<\/a> on ex-offender job fairs. Such fairs are being organized all over the country, with mixed results. In this case and in some others I&#8217;ve seen, few employers or ex-offenders even showed up. Those who did attend, got good news (employers could get tax credits for hiring someone with a criminal record) and bad (many ex-offenders are ineligible for expungement). Such job fairs seem to be most successful in tight labor markets (e.g., 1999-2000 in most areas). On the employee side, turnout might improve by targeting current probationers or parolees, rather than former offenders who are &#8220;off-paper&#8221; and more difficult to mobilize. Mobilizing employers is more difficult, unless they face a labor shortage or former felons (potential &#8220;sponsors&#8221;) have a good track record in the firm or establishment. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidmedia.com\/vms_tape\/ex-offender_success\/ex-offender_success.htm\">books and videos <\/a>available for ex-offenders and organizations such as Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/0-www.ncjrs.org.library.unl.edu\/pdffiles\/167575.pdf#search=\">Safer Foundation<\/a> have a long history of successful job development and placement for this group. Still, I tend to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/~freeman\/\">Richard Freeman<\/a> &#8212; the best jobs program is probably a full-employment economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crimprof blog cites the LA Times on ex-offender job fairs. Such fairs are being organized all over the country, with mixed results. In this case and in some others I&#8217;ve seen, few employers or ex-offenders even showed up. Those who did attend, got good news (employers could get tax credits for hiring someone with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}