The penal system and the labor market

Barriers to Reentry?: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 335-359

  Western, Bruce ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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