Belastningsregister : En balansgång med den personliga integriteten

Sammanfattning: At the time of the study, there is no law to prevent an employer from doing criminal background checks. Employers for School and childcare have to do criminal background checks before hiring but the background checks have increased significantly in other industries as well. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and explain what interest employers may have in jobseekers history and how it can affect people’s privacy. To do this I have used right dogmatic approach combined with four interviews with different employers to get their perspective on the subject. What the results tell us are that employers generally don't deliberate the purpose of using criminal background checks. Instead they do it mechanistically without much thought. Jobseekers personal integrity then gets pushed aside for. Theory says that criminal background checks become a major obstacle for ex-offenders in their getting back to life of law-abiding. Therefore it would be better if employers wrote down their reasons for background checks in some kind of policy documents. Most likely many employers will then realize that using other methods can fulfill their interest.