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

Bryan L. Sykes, Michelle Maroto
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2016, 2 (6) 129-152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.07
Bryan L. Sykes
aAssistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine
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bAssistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta
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A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011
Bryan L. Sykes, Michelle Maroto
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Oct 2016, 2 (6) 129-152; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.07
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