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Marked : race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration / Devah Pager.
Author
Pager, Devah
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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HV9304 .P23 2007
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Ex-convicts
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Employment
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African Americans
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Employment
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Summary note
From the Publisher: Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding their lives. The product of an innovative field experiment, Marked gives us our first real glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market. Devah Pager matched up pairs of young men, randomly assigned them criminal records, then sent them on hundreds of real job searches throughout the city of Milwaukee. Her applicants were attractive, articulate, and capable-yet ex-offenders received less than half the callbacks of the equally qualified applicants without criminal backgrounds. Young black men, meanwhile, paid a particularly high price: those with clean records fared no better in their job searches than white men just out of prison. Such shocking barriers to legitimate work, Pager contends, are an important reason that many ex-prisoners soon find themselves back in the realm of poverty, underground employment, and crime that led them to prison in the first place. Drawing much-needed attention to a problem that will continue to grow in coming years, Marked will ignite important debates over incarceration, discrimination, and the failures of our criminal justice system.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-234) and index.
Contents
Mass incarceration and the problems of prisoner reentry
The labor market consequences of incarceration
Measuring the labor market consequences of incarceration
The mark of a criminal record
The mark of race
Two strikes and you're out : the intensification of racial and criminal stigma
But what if-- ? variations on the experimental design
Conclusion : missing the mark.
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ISBN
9780226644837 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0226644839 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226644844 ((pbk.))
0226644847 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2007003733
OCLC
82673545
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