At the same time that the EEOC is practically rewriting the law to add "criminal offender" to the list of protected groups under civil-rights statutes, the agency refuses to disclose whether it uses criminal background checks for its own hiring.
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The federal Sentencing Guidelines take into account both the seriousness of the offense and the offender's criminal history.
Rather than attacking the criminal justice system for the offender's non-custodial sentence, Mrs Kent is pleased he was not jailed.
He offers the analogy of a conveyor belt, on which the individual passes through successive stages: neglected child, disruptive pupil, anti-social teenager, young offender, hardened criminal.
"Felipe Torrealba has been a violent career offender with a criminal history which dates back to 2000, " Angel Gonzalez, deputy assistant director of the U.S. Marshals Investigative Operations Division, said in a statement.
The reason for that is that the convicted sex offender is less likely to reoffend than any other criminal.
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It is about the criminal justice system regarding burglary as important and dealing fairly severely with the offender.
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Former EEOC General Counsel Donald Livingston, in testimony in December to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, warned that employers could be considered guilty of "race discrimination if they choose law abiding applicants over applicants with criminal convictions" unless they conduct a comprehensive analysis of the ex-offender's recent life history.
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In Swansea, police and social services, together with health and council staff, decide whether it is more appropriate for a young offender to go through the court system and end up with a criminal record or whether they could benefit from a "second chance".
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Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.
While the judge granted anonymity to the sex offender, he also stressed that the ruling does not suppress information about him or his criminal record that is already in the public domain.
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