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They explain how this model, strongly protective of privacy and confidentiality, has nonetheless triggered the proliferation of centralised state-performed criminal record screening leading to significant barriers to the re-entry process for people with a criminal record. Keywords: Collateral consequences; comparative criminal justice; comparative criminology; criminal records; policy mobilities EN Collateral consequences comparative criminal justice comparative criminology criminal records policy mobilities 519 527 9 08/25/23 20230901 NES 230901 This special issue is devoted to a constantly growing field of interest within criminology and criminal justice: so-called collateral consequences of criminal records (hereinafter, CCCR). Leandro Gaston and Carlos Carnevale explore the criminal records system in Argentina in the context of recent reforms on criminal record disclosure in Latin America. In fact, ramifications of criminal records represent a major facet of the lived experience of criminal justice-involved individuals who are subject, to a varying degree, to a web of discrimination, exclusion, governance and surveillance (e.g. [46]). [Extracted from the article]

Objectives: This study examines whether former police officers are stigmatized in the labor market, particularly following social unrest from lethal police violence. Methods: We conduct an experimental audit study, both before and after heightened unrest from police violence. For service-related job openings, we compare the likelihood of getting an affirmative response from a prospective employer to a job application from a fictitious former police officer (the treatment condition) to the response to one of two control conditions: a former firefighter or a former code enforcement officer. Results: We do not find evidence that former police officers are discriminated against in the labor market. This finding holds in periods characterized by relatively little social unrest due to police violence as well as periods of heightened protest activity. Conclusions: At least with respect to the labor market for certain service-related professions, former police officers do not appear tainted by any stigma associated with their prior profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study uses an experimental audit design, implemented both before and during the heightened unrest following the murder of George Floyd, to gauge the impact of Black Lives Matter and associated protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism on racially disparate hiring practices. We contrast treatment of fictitious Black and White job applicants in the labor market for service-related job openings, specifically applicants with prior experience as a police officer, firefighter, or code enforcement officer. Results reveal that the White advantage in employer call-backs and requests for an interview receded during the protests and unrest following the killing of George Floyd, even to the point of producing a Black advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]