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Sociology

Old Dominion University

2007

Employer selection

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Employers Preferences: What Type Of Employers Are Hiring Ex-Offenders?, Gia M. Dyke Apr 2007

Employers Preferences: What Type Of Employers Are Hiring Ex-Offenders?, Gia M. Dyke

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between employers and ex-offenders. The focus here is on which employers have experience in hiring ex-offenders and which do not. More specifically, the central research question of this study is what type of employers' are more inclined to hire what type of offenders? This question is examined by utilizing secondary data collected by the Michigan State Survey Center during spring of 2002. The data were collected for a research project entitled Consequences of a Criminal Record for Employment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the purpose of this study, only data …