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The Mark of a Criminal Record1 - Harvard University
AJSV olume 108 Number 5 (March 2003): 937 75937 2003 by The University of Chicago. All rights $ Mark of a Criminal Record1 Devah PagerNorthwestern UniversityWith over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and overhalf a million prisoners released each year, the large and growingnumber of men being processed through the Criminal justice systemraises important questions about the consequences of this massiveinstitutional intervention. This article focuses on the consequencesof incarceration for the employment outcomes of black and whitejob seekers. The present study adopts an experimental auditapproach in which matched pairs of individuals applied for realentry-level jobs to formally test the degree to which a Criminal re-cord affects subsequent employment opportunities. The findings ofthis study reveal an important, and much underrecognized, mech-anism of stratification. A Criminal record presents a major barrierto employment, with important implications for racial stratification researchers typically focus on schools, labor markets,and the family as primary institutions affecting inequality, a new insti-tution has emerged as central to the sorting and stratifying of young anddisadvantaged men: the Criminal justice system.
Criminal Record 941 Fig. 2.—Model of spurious effects ment difficulties, survey research is poorly equipped to offer a definitive answer. The Achilles heel of …
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