People with criminal records seeking employment face a dilemma: how to discuss their conviction(s) in a job interview. Convicted job seekers are encouraged to draft, revise, and rehearse their “conviction scripts” and to approach their delivery as a Goffmanian performance. Drawing from participant observation within a nonprofit employment program in Southern California, this article analyzes job seekers’ attempts to craft narratives that will satisfy employers’ curiosities and concerns, with the assistance of professional coaches. I find that rather than challenge criminalizing practices or stigma itself, job seekers are encouraged to dissociate from criminal stigma and develop narratives that reinforce dominant frameworks of personal respo...
Wesley T. Church II and David W. Springer (Eds.), Serving the Stigmatized: Working Within the Incarc...
Incarceration has been an issue nationwide in the United States for decades due to policies from the...
In the past twenty-five years advances in research have increased awareness of the deleterious effec...
It has been established that there are numerous barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment fol...
This article explores how released prisoners on parole overcome the stigma of a criminal conviction ...
Wrongful convictions continue to receive increased attention among scholars and wider society. The m...
The purpose of my research was to illuminate the barriers faced by those that have a criminal drug r...
The employment of persons with criminal records has become an increasingly important issue in the We...
Formerly incarcerated individuals face stigmatization at work because of their conviction history. P...
Coercive work occurs when people are required to work under threat of criminal legal repercussions s...
To date, researchers have been very attentive to how the stigma of criminality informs employers’ hi...
Obtaining employment is one of the most difficult challenges for individuals released from prison. T...
Two centuries ago in Pennsylvania, with the means of overcoming brutal punishments and the introduct...
Many exonerees report stigmatizing experiences and difficulties securing gainful employment post-inc...
The former prisoner identity can be described as a socially devalued identity that is not visible or...
Wesley T. Church II and David W. Springer (Eds.), Serving the Stigmatized: Working Within the Incarc...
Incarceration has been an issue nationwide in the United States for decades due to policies from the...
In the past twenty-five years advances in research have increased awareness of the deleterious effec...
It has been established that there are numerous barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment fol...
This article explores how released prisoners on parole overcome the stigma of a criminal conviction ...
Wrongful convictions continue to receive increased attention among scholars and wider society. The m...
The purpose of my research was to illuminate the barriers faced by those that have a criminal drug r...
The employment of persons with criminal records has become an increasingly important issue in the We...
Formerly incarcerated individuals face stigmatization at work because of their conviction history. P...
Coercive work occurs when people are required to work under threat of criminal legal repercussions s...
To date, researchers have been very attentive to how the stigma of criminality informs employers’ hi...
Obtaining employment is one of the most difficult challenges for individuals released from prison. T...
Two centuries ago in Pennsylvania, with the means of overcoming brutal punishments and the introduct...
Many exonerees report stigmatizing experiences and difficulties securing gainful employment post-inc...
The former prisoner identity can be described as a socially devalued identity that is not visible or...
Wesley T. Church II and David W. Springer (Eds.), Serving the Stigmatized: Working Within the Incarc...
Incarceration has been an issue nationwide in the United States for decades due to policies from the...
In the past twenty-five years advances in research have increased awareness of the deleterious effec...