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Title Imprisoning America : the social effects of mass incarceration / Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, editors.

Imprint New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  365.973 Im7 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Incarceration and the bonds between parents in fragile families / Bruce Western, Leonard M. Lopoo, Sara McLanahan -- Fatherhood and incarceration as potential turning points in the criminal careers of unskilled men / Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Rechelle Parnal -- Returning to strangers : newly paroled young fathers and their children / Anne M. Nurse -- Children of incarcerated parents : multiple risks and children's living arrangements / Elizabeth I. Johnson, Jane Waldfogel -- Effects of incarceration on informal social control in communities / James P. Lynch, William J. Sabol -- Lost voices : the civic and political views of disenfranchised felons / Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza -- Will employers hire former offenders? : employer preferences, background checks, and their determinants / Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael, Michael A. Stoll -- Reentry and reintegration : new perspectives on the challenges of mass incarceration / Jeremy Travis.
Subject Imprisonment -- Social aspects.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
Added Author Pattillo, Mary E.
Weiman, David F.
Western, Bruce, 1964-
ISBN 087154654X pbk.
0871546523

 
    
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