What Do You Really Know About Criminal Records?

The Criminal Record Handbook is an important reference manual for anyone who uses criminal records when making business or hiring decisions. Author Hinton analyzes the compliance issues connected to complicated federal and state laws that employers, financial institutions, attorneys, corporate security centers, private investigators and others must abide by when obtaining and using criminal records. Sixteen practical, easy-to-read chapters are combined with an incredibly in-depth study of each state's restrictions and policies regarding the release of all types of criminal and incarceration records, including locations and explanations of the states' and federal specific citations and statutes. A timely publication for today's world of heightened interest in security and correct hiring procedures.

(PRWEB) June 19, 2005 -- Do you know:

- Which states forbid use of arrest records without dispositions?
- Which states forbid the use of misdemeanors?
- Which states limit use of first offense record?
- Which states offer access to a statewide database of court records?
- Which agencies require specific forms or fingerprints?
- Which agencies offer online access?

The Criminal Record Manual is the comprehensive compendium that answers all your questions regarding the legal use and access of criminal records. Armed with this detailed perspective employers, screening firms, attorneys, PIs and others can know exactly whats going on in this sensitive corner of the public record industry . . . and keep out of hot water.

The fully revised and expanded 2nd edition of The Criminal Records Manual features:

(NEW) State Statutes - Citations and Explanations
- Statutes That Affect Employers
- Statutes That Affect Consumer Reporting Agencies
- State-Specific Restrictions
FCRA and Title VII Compliance Guidelines
- Tips on How to Abide by Legal Mandates
- Forms, Prior Decisions, Opinions
- Avoid Negligent Hiring
- Avoid Discrimination Lawsuits
Access Procedures, Fees, Sources of Criminal Records
- Statewide Court Systems
- State Record Repositories
- Including Sexual Offender and Incarceration Records

(NEW) Common Definitions and Abbreviations
- Criminal Record Offense Glossary Using NIBRS Standards
- Decode the Standardized Abbreviations Found on Many Records

How to Work with Vendors
- Where to Find the Leading Record Vendors in the U.S.
- Pluses and Minuses of Working With a Database Vendor
- When Vendors Comply with FCRA...and When They Do Not

The Criminal Records Book is authored by Derek Hinton, the who has over 20 years experience in the field of employment screening and criminal records. It is published by Facts on Demand Press, an imprint of BRB Publications Inc., the nations leading publisher of public record sourcebooks.

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