Example employment dissertation topic 2:

‘Putting Pandora back in the box’: Criminal convictions and the world of work.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in January 2013 that not all crimes will need to be disclosed under CRB protocols has been heralded by civil rights and liberty groups. Against this contemporary backdrop this dissertation asks: what now for the Criminal Records Bureaux? Arguing that the explosion of CRB checks in the early 2000s has hindered volunteerism and meant that minor transgression committed in youth have come back to haunt people (in a way not expected by the initial instigators of the legislation) this dissertation argues that the time has come for a redrawing of CRB guidelines so that it becomes, once more, a check only for those with substantial unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults as a primary focus of their work.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Bowles, R. and Florackis, C. (2012). ‘Impatience, reputation and offending’. Applied Economics, vol. 44(2), pp. 177-187.
• Lukies, J., Graffam, J. and Shinkfield, A.J. (2011). ‘The effect of organisational context variables on employer attitudes toward employability of ex-offenders’. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 55(3), pp. 460-475.
• Morgenstern, C. (2011).’ Judicial rehabilitation in Germany: The use of criminal records and the removal of recorded convictions’. European Journal of Probation, vol. 3(1), pp. 20-35.