Status and the stigma of incarceration: The labor-market effects of incarceration, by race, class, and criminal involvement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 203-226

  Pettit, Becky ^a   Lyons, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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