The Robben White Paper Archive
Robben develops practical white papers to help employers, educators, service providers, faith communities, and other organizations better understand, engage, employ, and support justice-involved people. Each paper combines lived experience, professional insight, and research to examine a specific challenge and offer useful guidance.
We make these resources available free of charge because we believe useful knowledge should be accessible to the organizations and individuals working to improve outcomes for justice-involved people. The papers may be shared and distributed in their complete, unmodified form with attribution to Robben. Excerpts, adaptations, alterations, or partial distribution require prior written permission.
BEYOND THE BACKGROUND CHECK, PART 1
Explores how justice-involved people experience opportunity and why hiring practices, communication, and assumptions can shape whether an opportunity feels truly accessible.
BEYOND THE BACKGROUND CHECK, PART 2
Examines how employers can move beyond screening and create workplace practices that give justice-involved people a genuine opportunity to succeed.
BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Explores why justice-involved clients may resist required services and how fairness, credibility, choice, and personal purpose can turn reluctant attendance into meaningful engagement.
BEYOND WELCOME
A practical guide for faith communities seeking to welcome justice-involved people with grace, wisdom, accountability, and appropriate safeguards.