Mass Imprisonment and Economic Inequality.
Part of a special issue on incarceration and punishment in the U.S. Incarceration is so pervasive among some social groups in the U.S. as to be a defining feature of their collective experience. This unprecedented rate of incarceration has two important effects on economic inequality. First, it g...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 509 - 533 |
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New School for Social Research
Summer 2007
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