Abstract
In liberal market capitalist societies, a wasteland confronts individuals released from prison, induced by influences that coalesce to create an institution that is an all but insurmountable barrier to their reintegration into the mainstream labour market. This situation has attracted little attention from diversity management scholars and in this paper we address this omission by engaging in theory building that surfaces and analyses the cultural, normative and regulative elements of this institution. We argue the prisoner re-entry problem in liberal market capitalist societies requires that policy makers, practitioners and diversity theorists apply themselves to a highly unusual task: fabricating a body of theory and practice that informs the development of strategies to support employers in liberal market economies to engage in ‘institutional avoidance’, even when this may draw unfavourable attention to the firm, and be ill-received by employees who do not have a criminal record.
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