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A Higher Hurdle: Barriers to Employment for Formerly Incarcerated Women

A Higher Hurdle: Barriers to Employment for Incarcerated Women found that a criminal record has a negative impact on employment opportunities of women. Formerly incarcerated women are significantly less likely than non-formerly incarcerated women to receive a positive response (5.5% vs. 8.0%, respectively) from potential employers and face a number of mental, financial, and physical barriers to seeking and retaining employment.

Available online

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/

Author(s)

Monique W. Morris, Michael Sumner, and Jessica Z. Borja

State

California

Periodical

Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law

Where published

CA