Invisible Burden: Police Records and the Barriers to Employment in Toronto
"While the Canadian public assumes that a sentence for a crime is finite
in length, in fact criminal records can have serious negative effects on
people’s lives and careers long after their formal sentences are over.
In particular, a police record can make it difficult or impossible to
get a job, or to enter an education or training program, even when the
crime is irrelevant to the job or education being pursued. In order to
get a better understanding of the negative effects of police records on
employment potential of Torontonians the Centre of Research, Policy
& Program Development (the Centre) at the John Howard Society of
Ontario (JHSO) conducted in-depth survey (n=35) and interviews with
employers (n=4) and a focus group with 8 individuals with police
records. The research, supported through funding from the Metcalf
Foundation, continued to build on the previous findings from JHSO’s and
other community agency’s work on the deleterious effects of police
records on employment."
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