Incarceration & social inequality

Daedalus

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 8-19

  Western, Bruce ^a   Pettit, Becky ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; POVERTY; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; MEN; POVERTY; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956858609     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00019     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. We gratefully acknowledge Bryan Sykes, Deirdre Bloome, and Chris Muller, who helped conduct the research reported in this paper. This research was supported in part by a gift from The Elfenworks Foundation.
2. In her essay for this issue, Candace Kruttschnitt shows that women's incarceration has pronounced effects by separating mothers from their children. The continued growth of women's incarceration rates threatens to have large effects on family life.
3. Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006); Caroline Wolf Harlow, Education and Correctional Populations (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003).
4. Harry J. Holzer, Collateral Costs: Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings Among Young Workers, in Do Prisons Make Us Safer? ed. Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009).
5. Devah Pager, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
6. Christopher Mumola, Incarcerated Parents and Their Children (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000).
7. Megan Comfort In the Tube at San Quentin: The 'Secondary Prisonization' of Women Visiting Inmates, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32 (1) (2003): 82; emphasis original.
8. Christopher Wildeman, Paternal Incarceration and Children's Physically Aggressive Behaviors: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, working paper 2008-02-FF (Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing, 2008).
9. T. H. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class (Concord, Mass.: Pluto Press, 1992).
10. Western, Punishment and Inequality in America, chap. 7.
11. Pedro Carneiro and James J. Heckman, Human Capital Policy, in James J. Heckman and Alan B. Krueger, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? (Cambridge, Mass.: mit Press, 2003).
12. Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, and Gilda Azurdia, Transitional Jobs for Ex-prisoners: Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (ceo) Prisoner Reentry Program (mdrc, 2009).