A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011

Bryan L. Sykes; Michelle Maroto

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.07

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 6 129-152

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.07

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online October 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 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 paper was presented at the Russell Sage Wealth Inequality Meeting in October 2015 and the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. We thank Fabian Pfeffer, Robert Schoeni, Sheldon Danziger, Robert Hauser, Alexandra Killewald, anonymous reviewers, and participants of the RSF Wealth Inequality Meeting for comments on previous versions of our paper. Direct correspondence to: Bryan L. Sykes at blsykes@uci.edu, 3317 Social Ecology II, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697; and Michelle Maroto at maroto@ualberta.ca, 6-23, Tory Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4, Canada. 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.

Author Information

Bryan L. Sykes^a and
Michelle Maroto^b

^aAssistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine
^bAssistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta