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Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry

Augustine, Dallas

Law & social inquiry, 2019-08, Vol.44 (3), p.726-751 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry
Autor: Augustine, Dallas
Assuntos: Barriers ; Compliance ; Consciousness ; Criminal records ; Employment ; Employment policies ; Ex-convicts ; Felony ; Imprisonment ; Job searching ; Law ; Positioning ; Prisoners ; Recidivism ; Reentry ; Supervision ; Work
É parte de: Law & social inquiry, 2019-08, Vol.44 (3), p.726-751
Descrição: Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to employment after prison. They find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding “legit” work) but also legally barred from doing so. To navigate this conflictual legal positioning, job seekers with felony records develop strategies of working around the law to find employment. Through thirty qualitative interviews with people with felony records, I examine this alternative form of legal consciousness and detail the ways in which individuals navigate the legal barriers to acquiring “good” work. Ultimately, job seekers’ often extralegal strategies of law abidance blur the line between compliance with and defiance of the law.
Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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