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The Fallout from Criminal Justice System Contact

Hedwig Lee, Alexandra Gibbons, Garrett Baker, Christopher Wildeman
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2025, 11 (3) 174-229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.3.05
Hedwig Lee
aJames B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University, United States
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dProfessor of sociology at Duke University, United States, and works at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark
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vol. 11 no. 3 174-229
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.3.05

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2377-8253
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2377-8261
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  • Published online October 20, 2025.

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© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Lee, Hedwig, Alexandra Gibbons, Garrett Baker, and Christopher Wildeman. 2025. “The Fallout from Criminal Justice System Contact.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(3): 174–229. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.3.05. We are grateful to the three reviewers, Suzanne Nichols, and the conference participants for their comments on earlier drafts of this article. Direct correspondence to Christopher Wildeman, at christopher.wildeman{at}duke.edu, 417 Chapel Drive, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708, United States. 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. Hedwig Leea,
  2. Alexandra Gibbonsb,
  3. Garrett Bakerc and
  4. Christopher Wildemand
  1. aJames B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University, United States
  2. bPhD student at Harvard University, United States
  3. cPhD candidate at Duke University, United States
  4. dProfessor of sociology at Duke University, United States, and works at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark
  1. Correspondence author:
    Christopher Wildeman, (christopher.wildeman{at}duke.edu)
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Hedwig Lee, Alexandra Gibbons, Garrett Baker, Christopher Wildeman
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