New Expunged Record Law Limits Background Checks


North Carolina‘s new Expunged Criminal Record bill will affect what questions employers may ask on job applications and during the hiring process. The law prevents most employers from asking about crimes and criminal charges that have been expunged from job applicants‘ records. The law doesn‘t bar employers from asking about arrests and convictions that have not been expunged.


First violations of the law will earn a warning; subsequent infractions carry a $500 fine. Read more


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Violence Against Women and Mental Health, edited by C. Garcia-Moreno & A. Reicher-Rossler Reviewed by Ken Dolan-DelVecchio, LMFT, LCSW, CEAP, SPHR


Violence Against Women and Mental Health, edited by C. Garcia-Moreno & A. Reicher- Rossler, and published by Karger, 2013, as Vol. 178 in their series Key Issues in Mental Health, gives a sweeping account of the horrors that men inflict upon girls and women across the world, and the impact upon their victims‘ behavioral health. Though the fairly dry style and heaviness of the subject matter makes it a challenge to get through, the book


provides value. It describes the breadth and variety of tactics within the worldwide war against girls and women, the mental health consequences that result, and healing approaches that seem to help.


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