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Severe Deprivation and System Inclusion Among Children of Incarcerated Parents in the United States After the Great Recession

Bryan L. Sykes, Becky Pettit
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (2) 108-132; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.06
Bryan L. Sykes
aAssistant professor, 3317 Social Ecology II, Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
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bProfessor of sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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vol. 1 no. 2 108-132
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.06

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  • Published online November 1, 2015.

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Copyright © 2015 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2014 Russell Sage Foundation conference “Severe Deprivation in America.” We thank Sheldon Danziger, Matthew Desmond, anonymous reviewers, Anjuli Verma, Naomi Sugie, participants of the Socio Legal Workshop (SLW) at the University of California, Irvine, and the “Severe Deprivation” conference participants for suggested revisions on previous drafts. Direct correspondence to: Bryan L. Sykes at blsykes@uci.edu, 3317 Social Ecology II, Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697; and Becky Pettit at bpettit@utexas.edu, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 305 E. 23rd St., A 1700, CLA 3.306, Austin TX 78712. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Bryan L. Sykesa and
  2. Becky Pettitb
  1. aAssistant professor, 3317 Social Ecology II, Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
  2. bProfessor of sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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    Bryan L. Sykes, (blsykes{at}uci.edu); Becky Pettit, (bpettit{at}utexas.edu)
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    • POVERTY, MATERIAL HARDSHIP, AND CHILDHOOD DISADVANTAGE
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    • CONCEPTUAL MEASURES
    • METHODS
    • SEVERE DEPRIVATION AMONG AMERICAN CHILDREN
    • SYSTEM INCLUSION AMONG THE DISADVANTAGED
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