“…Ali et al, 2017;Rade et al, 2018) signals that additional guidance might be required to help develop new theory and research paradigms (Weick, 1989) (Figure 1). Calls for a systematic research agenda therefore are helpful for directing attention to the most pressing unanswered questions in the field, particularly those from important practitioner and academic concerns, such as: increasing public pressure to reduce recidivism through targeted interventions aimed at improving employability (Anazodo and Jones Young, 2017); and the assumed, but rarely tested, relationships between work outcomes, work experiences and criminal record.…”