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Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor

Sandra Susan Smith, Jonathan Simon
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 1-27; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.01
Sandra Susan Smith
aProfessor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
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bAssociate dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the Berkeley School of Law at the University of California
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