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Research ArticleIV. The Prison as Poverty Institution
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Mass Incarceration, Parental Imprisonment, and the Great Recession: Intergenerational Sources of Severe Deprivation in America

John Hagan, Holly Foster
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (2) 80-107; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.05
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aJohn D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation.
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    • IMPRISONED PARENTS, SEVERE DEPRIVATION, AND THE SYSTEMIC EXCLUSION OF CHILDREN
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