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                            Funding & Awards
 State-Mandated Criminal Background Employment Screening: A High Stakes Window into the Desistance Process
Award Information
Awardee
              The Research Foundation of SUNY
Award #
              2012-MU-MU-0048
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Albany, NY
Awardee County
              Albany
Congressional District
              20
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $706,943
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Desistance From Crime Over the Life Course
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $706,943)
In this study, the grantee will partner closely with New York's Department of Health (DOH) and its Division of Criminal Justice Services to study the question of redemption desistance within the context of an actual employment decision (a job as a long term health care worker) and will specifically address five research questions:
-	How well can we identify desisters using past criminal history records?
-	What factors besides time since last offense can be used to identify individuals with criminal records who are nonetheless indistinguishable from non-offenders in terms of risk of rearrest?
-	Does the government sealing of criminal records have a causal impact on the hiring decision and subsequent behavior of the individual with the criminal history record?
-	What role does the offer of employment make to the future earnings and offending of individuals with criminal history records?
Research Subjects:  The primary sample will consist of all persons who applied and were considered suitable for employment with a health care agency subject to Article 28-E background checks during 2008 and 2009.  The sample size is estimated to be 300,000.  
Research Design and Methods:   Quasi-experimental design for two causal studies of desistance (impact on employment prospects vis-à-vis sealing criminal records) and whether denial of long term care employment by DOH impacts desistance rates.  
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                      Defensible Decisions: Balancing Employer and Prospective Employee Rights in an Era of Criminal Background Checks
                  Unemployment Shocks for Individuals on the Margin: Exploring Recidivism Effects
                  Criminal Background Checks and Recidivism: Bounding the Causal Impact
                  Redeemed Compared to Whom?: Comparing the Distributional Properties of Arrest Risk Across Populations of Provisional Employees With and Without a Criminal Record
                  A New Look at the Employment and Recidivism Relationship Through the Lens of a Criminal Background Check

  
Date Created: August 30, 2012
    
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