Recruit with Conviction
The reality of criminal justice is that around 30% of men under 30 have some sort of criminal conviction. And yet ‘criminals’ get lumped into one big category, often regardless of the type of crime. We end up condemning all people with convictions, often forgetting that, based on that 30% statistic, these ‘criminals’ are also almost certainly part of our own circle of friends, family, acquaintances and neighbours. They are people with faces, identities, life stories. Based on the horrific and extreme cases we hear on television, we end up being fearful of all people with convictions, regardless of their offence. We often forget that many people with convictions have often got there on a pathway that comes from ‘child social care’, abuse by others, drugs and mental health issues. We don’t condone crime in any way but we do believe in second chances. And the best way to give people a second chance, to enable them to rehabilitate and become full and positive me...