why will people not employ criminals even if the crime was not serious?

Answer 1

Everyone has good in them somewhere it is just a question of giving them the chance to find it. Conditions today are worse than I have ever known them and I am glad I am old.
I was one of life's victims once and I was prepared to sleep with the tramps in a doss house. My mother died and my brother was evacuated and I was kicked out to allow my father to move in his bird. I was 15. Oh and war started that day.
I still think I had it better than some people I see back where I came from. I was lucky and determined, but had I been otherwise I would or could have suffered worse.
Compassion?
I have it in bucket loads for my fellow man.
Never kick anyone who is down on their luck.
It's immoral

Answer 2

Committing a crime is a stigma which will be carried as a lifelong hardship because the person is judged as not trustworthy, devious and capable of possibly harming others - even if the crime was a petty one and the person purports to be innocent there is still an issue with the person's legal record.

Some employers will employ people convicted of crimes but very few. Usually, employers will employ persons will criminal records only if it is a last resort for cheap labor.

For an employer hiring a person with a criminal record is a risk that is probably not feasible when you consider employers might have to be bonded and carry a lot of insurance for their businesses, etc. Insurance companies will often make it harder on employers and charge more money if they know the company has an employed felon on the payroll. Frequently an insurance company will deny or cancel insurance if it is found that a felon is employed by the company.

It is a sad fact of life but employing a felon is not worth the risk for most employers.

Answer 3

Surely employers would rather give a job to someone with a totally clean slate rather than someone who has done something that is regarded as wrong or illegal in society and could just as easily do so again. People want to employ and work with others they can trust and depend on and I think a lot of respect instantly goes out of the window for anyone who has a criminal record no matter how insignificant the crime. Their applications for various jobs are nearly always going to be competing with plenty of people who aren't criminals so why ever would an employer pick them when there are plenty of decent and honest candidates to choose from?

Answer 4

Because my friend, there is no such thing as a 'non serious crime'.
Police and magistrates do not waste their time on things that are not serious.
Every crime has an impact on someone innocent, i.e. the victim or friends and relatives of the victim. So what do you consider a non serious crime to be? Mugging? Bag snatching? Bootlegging? What?
All of these crimes affect others. That's what you don't seem able to grasp. So you're bitching about not being able to get a job. Aw, poor you! Did you stop to think about the consequences of your actions when you did what you did that was so obviously against the law that you got a record from it?
No. Probably not. Otherwise you wouldn't have done it. Or if you did, you must just be a very callous piece of scum.
We all have a consequence to pay for our actions. Accept it.

Answer 5

There are two reasons: One being company policy, the other being insurance. What it all comes down to is liability. Many companies insurance will not allow their clients to let someone who is bankrupt, or has been convicted of any kind of money-related crime to handle cash or do their accounting; from everything from cashiering to accounting to collecting. This is what they mean on an application form when they ask if you are "Bondable". Sometimes, working somewhere that requires you to handle money if you have been convicted of a crime violates the terms of your probation or release as well - the company could be protecting themselves from potential charges themselves.

It is a very similar situation for other crimes - convicted pedophiles cannot work in an elementary school, for example. Murderers can't work in a hospital. People charged with crimes related to mob activity cannot become police officers.

Answer 6

Yeah you can get employment as a criminal, depending on the offence you have been charged with you can get a job helping young people on asbo's to stop crime or this could happen or be self employed there for you can employ people

Answer 7

Alot of places will hire criminals. Most of the time an employer wants to do a backround check for violent offenders(going postal). Also to see if someone lies about being a felon on an application.Honesty is always the best in this case!

Answer 8

Not all companies vet their prospective employees properly.

When my BF was a kid, a paedophile raped several little girls living down their street (including their next door neighbour's daughter who was 11).

After a stupidly short sentence, the bastard was let out and found a job.

In TOYS R US!

Seriously! A convicted paedophile got a job in a shop full of kids! Presumably he either lied on his application or omitted to mention what he'd been in prison for and the store didn't bother checking.

Luckily the locals found out and told both the store and the police and he was sacked.

Answer 9

Depends if the job requires security background check usually to determine the character of the individual. And depending on the type of crime committed being matched to what the person is applying to do, may be very limiting.

Answer 10

muaythaigreat, there are certian categories of job where not admitting your criminal record is, in itself a criminal act. If it is on the form you are obliged to indicate any 'unspent' ones, and for some jobs all criminal records. Teachers hospital workers and people who work with children and in certain 'sensitive' jobs HAVE to indicate them. These type of jobs will, almost certainly, need clearance from the CRB in any case. At least there is one thing after that, I can PROVE that I have no criminal record, as I have had to have 2 CRB checks for various jobs, all clear.