The Implications of Criminal & Credit Checks

Each question must be a minimum of 250 words. Must use a minimum of 2 sources per question. 

  1). What are your thoughts on the disparate impact discrimination concern resulting from correlations between criminal records and protected classes such as race? 

  2). Are the EEOC's guidelines in response to this issue adequate recourse?Why or Why not? 

  3). Given the discord among states about the propriety of credit checks, what are your thoughts on their use?

  4). Do they have the potential to create 'self-fulfilling prophecies' of the kind to which this week's lesson alluded? Why or why not?