Attitudes of employers, corrective services workers, employment support workers, and prisoners and offenders towards employing ex-prisoners and ex-offenders

Attitudes of employers, corrective services workers, employment support workers, and prisoners and offenders towards employing ex-prisoners and ex-offenders. This is a project supported by a grant from the Criminology Research Council. The views expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Council. Contents Acknowledgments i Introduction and Literature Review 1 Method 18 Sample 18 Instrument 19 Procedures 21 Data analysis 22 Results 24 Perceived employability of ex-prisoners, ex-offenders and other disadvantaged groups 25 Perceived employability of ex-prisoners, ex-offenders and members of the general workforce 42 Discussion 52 Summary of results 52 Policy and program implications 57 References 61 List of tables Table 1: Disadvantaged groups obtaining employment 26 Table 2: Obtaining employment with specific conditions 27 Table 3: Obtaining employment with a forensic history 28 Table 4: Disadvantaged groups maintaining employment 34 Table 5: Maintaining employment with specific conditions 35 Table 6: Maintaining employment with a forensic history 36 Table 7: Skills and characteristics and employability 42 Table 8: Employment related skills and characteristics among the three groups 45 i Acknowledgements