{"id":383,"date":"2008-03-08T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/08\/faculty-disclosing-criminal-background\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:22:21","slug":"faculty-disclosing-criminal-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/08\/faculty-disclosing-criminal-background\/","title":{"rendered":"faculty disclosing criminal background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/375-lardner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175258022117046882\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/376-lardner.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/03\/07\/criminal\"><em>inside higher ed<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>reports on criminal background checks for faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>i was surprised a few years ago when a student applying for an academic position sweated-out a very<em> thorough <\/em>criminal background investigation. during my job search in the mid-1990s, i can&#8217;t recall any discussion of criminal history &#8212; except for the senior scholar who chided me, saying &#8220;young criminologists these days haven&#8217;t done enough crime to make any sense of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>i can understand why colleges and universities might want a basic screen on applicants, but my student was called upon to explain every single <em>arrest<\/em>. on this point, i agree with the senior scholar who interviewed me: screening out criminologists with arrest histories is sort of like screening out economists who&#8217;ve handled currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inside higher ed reports on criminal background checks for faculty members. i was surprised a few years ago when a student applying for an academic position sweated-out a very thorough criminal background investigation. during my job search in the mid-1990s, i can&#8217;t recall any discussion of criminal history &#8212; except for the senior scholar who [&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":[124,418],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}