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- Title
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records.
- Authors
Maurutto, Paula; Hannah-Moffat, Kelly; Quirouette, Marianne
- Abstract
As police records expand with big data analytics, so too has the range of non-conviction information seeping into the public domain through criminal background checks. Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of background checks for those with criminal convictions, but less understood are the effects of non-conviction records. We draw on 8 focus groups and 52 interviews to understand how the release of non-conviction records are: (1) creating new institutional risk management pressures for police institutions, (2) expanding the role of employers as arbiters of risk, (3) redefining understandings of 'the risky subject' to include victims, those with mental health challenges and other innocent individuals subject to police contact and (4) raising critical legal questions about privacy and presumptions of innocence.
- Subjects
POLICE reports; BACKGROUND checks; CRIMINAL records; BIG data; RISK; POLICE administration
- Publication
British Journal of Criminology, 2023, Vol 63, Issue 6, p1368
- ISSN
0007-0955
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjc/azac092