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Marked : Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager (2009, Trade Paperback)

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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. "Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job. . . . Both informative and convincing."-- Library Journal " Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose--and one of the most useful sociological studies in years."--Michael Eric Dyson

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226644847
ISBN-13
9780226644844
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70905614

Product Key Features

Book Title
Marked : Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Author
Devah Pager
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv9304.P23 2009
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Mass Incarceration and the Problems of Prisoner Reentry 2 The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration 3 Measuring the Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration 4 The Mark of a Criminal Record 5 The Mark of Race 6 Two Strikes and You're Out: The Intensification of Racial and Criminal Stigma 7 But What If...' Variations on the Experimental Design 8 Conclusion: Missing the Mark Notes References Index
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
331.5/108996073
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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