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Research ArticleIII. The Commonplace of Violence and Death
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Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners

Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (2) 14-30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.02
Bruce Western
aDaniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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vol. 1 no. 2 14-30
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.02

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2377-8253
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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. This research was supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, and grants 5R21HD073761-02 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and SES-1259013 and SES-1424089 from the National Science Foundation. I gratefully acknowledge Boston Reentry Study participants, the significant assistance of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, and the excellent research assistance of Jennifer Arzu, Kathleen Culhane, Jaclyn Davis, Wynne Graham, LeShae Henderson, Rosa Otieno, and Caroline Walters. The data for this article are from the Boston Reentry Study, a research project conducted by Bruce Western, Anthony Braga, and Rhiana Kohl. Cathy Sirois, Matt Desmond, and the Justice and Inequality Reading Group provided helpful comments on earlier drafts. Direct correspondence to: Bruce Western at western@wjh.harvard.edu, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA 02138. 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. Bruce Westerna
  1. aDaniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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    Bruce Western, (western{at}wjh.harvard.edu)
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