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Digital Vulnerability: The Unequal Risk of E-Contact with the Criminal Justice System

Robert Vargas, Kayla Preito-Hodge, Jeremy Christofferson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 71-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.04
Robert Vargas
aNeubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab at the University of Chicago.
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Kayla Preito-Hodge
bA graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Jeremy Christofferson
cA graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Notre Dame.
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