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checkpoints. When the social costs of crime are high, law enforcement is most effective when it is unconstrained in its ability to … to models of decentralized crime, eliminating profiling by law enforcement is never optimal …
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“Ban-the-Box” (BTB) policies restrict employers from asking about applicants' criminal histories on job applications and are often presented as a means of reducing unemployment among black men, who disproportionately have criminal records. However, withholding information about criminal...
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Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted "ban the box" (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal is to improve employment outcomes for those with criminal records, with a secondary goal of...
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initial job screenings, are intended to increase employment opportunities and reduce economic incentives for crime. This study … is the first to explore the relationship between BTB laws and crime. Using agency-by-month data from the National … discrimination. We find no evidence that BTB laws increase property crime among African American men despite their also facing …
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