What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)

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Volumn 5, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Enns, Peter K ^a   Yi, Youngmin ^a   Comfort, Megan ^b   Goldman, Alyssa W ^a   Lee, Hedwig ^c   Muller, Christopher ^d   Wakefield, Sara ^e   Wang, Emily A ^f   Wildeman, Christopher ^a,g  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g 2tv DK 1307 Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

family; inequality; mass incarceration; survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066907474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23780231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2378023119829332     Document Type: Article

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