Vocabularies of motive among employers conducting criminal background checks

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-44

  Backman, Christel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

criminal background checks; criminal records; employment policies; recruitment; vocabularies of motive

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953309521     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: 15023869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001699310392601     Document Type: Article

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