What type of employment would you expect a criminal to work in?

I am curious to know what types of places you would expect to find someone working who has a criminal background? Real estate agents, construction workers, scientists, retail, government, etc. Let me know your opinions, this is for a paper I am writing, and I just need some opinions.
Answers:
The first place to look would be your common contractor/ self employed gigs like construction or some of the driving, or sales jobs, deffinatley home health, or janitorial contracts.People hiring contract work don't have the same level of accoutability as employers hirring w-2 employees. self employed and 10-99 people don't have people looking at background as closely

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well, there is a certain female running for president in 2008..
I would have to say a lot of criminals work for the government.

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the government of course ( you have to be a smart criminal and start stealing after elected of course)
you know it don't really matter what they have some one will *****
that trucker that had a gas tanker that caught fire in California had a record. orilley was bitching cause he was a ex con , how do we expect the ex cons to become ex con's when they can only get minimum crap jobs. once they paid for there crimes they should have a reasonable good Chance for employment, or they will go straight back to crime.

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Tech support.

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Ditch Digger

Cheeseburger technician

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Depending on the crime almost anything. Pedophiles tend to have a hard time getting jobs almost anywhere (except the catholic church) on the other hand a DUI, littering, shop lifting or public urination conviction won't bar you from most jobs.

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Umm. there are lots of criminals all around you I mean everywhere you look!! They have to make a living too. So really anywhere I guess to a certain extent but if they are serious offenses or have experienced jail time they may have a hard time to get jobs so they probably will work in the lower class jobs!!

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The Bush administration, that way their sentences can be commuted...

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Airport security. : )

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I would expect EVERY profession to have people working there who have a criminal background, where they have not yet been caught.
I would expect MANY jobs to have workers who aquired that background after they started working there.
Example ... a few years ago the blue collar factory workers of my employer went on strike and it was pretty violent ... arson, car-wars, road rage (on purpose), stalking, you name it ... before it was settled, darn near every union worker had been arrested and charged with some misdeed, and every one of us crossing the picket lline had been framed for one thing or another ... 100% of the work force now has some kind of a record of being arrested.
Now in the case of a prospective job applicant who has a criminal record through the judicial system, before they get hired, and it is not juvenile which can be "erased", how many places are going to check up on this? How many are going to find out from references, if they even check references?
I suggest you want to put this question to the Personnel %26 Human Resources type people who hang out in freelawanswer.com category Business %26 Finance sub-category Careers %26 Employment, where this question probably should have been posted in the first place.
Even if they know about the criminal record, it makes a big difference what the crime was all about, and the nature of the work.
If the crime was white collar, it will hurt a job in white collar, but might not hurt blue collar.
If the crime was theft of secrets, it will block job in knowlege management, but probably not hurt getting a job in retail or real estate.
So you need to do a matrix ... for each kind of job, what crimes make a hill of beans difference to that job.
There are some crimes, like say rape, where it not matter what job you apply for, they not want to hire a rapist.

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A deli shop on Broadway.

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Being a criminal myself I have found it extremely hard to get any job. Lots of employers these days do not want to take the added liability involved in hiring felons. People believe that once a criminal always a criminal. I was fortunate to find a company that would hire me and let me prove myself.

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Actresses or hotel heiresses, under the age of 26.