Collateral costs: Effects of incarceration on employment and earnings among young workers

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

Volumn 9781610444651, Issue , 2009, Pages 239-265

  Holzer, Harry J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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