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Where the Other 1 Percent Live: An Examination of Changes in the Spatial Concentration of the Formerly Incarcerated

David S. Kirk
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 255-274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.11
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aProfessor of sociology at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of Nuffield College.
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