[idopmstuff]

This doesn't seem better?

I'm an employer and I want to make sure you haven't committed any serious crimes, so I ask for a certificate saying you haven't committed violent crimes. I get a certificate saying you have. It was a fistfight from a couple of decades ago when you were 20, but I don't know if it's that or if you tortured someone to death. Gotta take a pass on hiring you, sorry.

Seems like the people this benefits relative to a system in which a company can find out the specific charges you were convicted of would be the people who have committed the most heinous crimes in a given category.

[hananova]

At least where I live, a fistfight from decades ago wouldn’t be on the certificate. In your example you want to know about serious crimes, but ask for violent crimes, why are you surprised that the answer you get won’t be useful to make a decision?

As in many things judicial, it only works if the rest of the system is designed to make it work.