Employers asking candidates to disclose their criminal records during the recruitment process “legitimizes” employer discrimination, a criminologist has warned. Dr. Beth Weaver, a Criminology expert and Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde University, said the reason is that most employers don’t know how to make sense of the information provided, including Ban the Box. To make application processes fairer, recruiters are advised to ‘Ban the Box’ and include applicant questions that fairly assess a candidate’s mental agility and capability to do a job.
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