The main goal of this study was to explore the attitudes and perception of employers towards the employment of former inmates.The first part of the thesis covers theoretical concepts of perception, attitudes and their influence on our behavior and it gives an overview of former research on this topic. The second part of this paper shows the results of this research that was conducted among Croatian employers. The study had a total of N=106 participants. The survey was achieved with an online questionnare and the questionnare consisted of sociodemographic questions, questions that covered habits and tendencies of employers, questions about employers' attitudes and, lastly, questions about the perception of employers. The results of the survey show that only just above one third of participants asks for a document of impunity and one fourth of the participants rarely or never looks at the document, if given. That leads us to the conclusion that a significant portion of employers wouldn't even know they were interviewing a former inmate, if the person wouldn't mention it themselves. Only 17% of participants once worked or are currently working with a former inmate and only 12,3% of employers hired a former inmate once in their life. The biggest agreement amongst the participants was shown within the questions that cover general attitudes or participants' personal values. The data shows that the participants with positive personal values, also have positive attitudes towards ex-offenders. The dana showed there were no differences in the responses of the participants, according to their level of education (lower educated ang higher educated) and their current position at work (bosses and employees). In the regards to the perception of employers, they dana shows that the employers are most worried about the disapproval of their collegues, if they were to hire an ex-offender, and the feeling of responsibility and guilt, if the ex-offender were to prove themselves as a bad worker.