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Locked Out of the Labor Market? State-Level Hidden Sentences and the Labor Market Outcomes of Recently Incarcerated Young Adults

Cody Warner, Joshua Kaiser, Jason N. Houle
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 132-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.06
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aAssociate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University
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bResident scholar in sociology at Dartmouth College
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cAssociate professor in sociology at Dartmouth College
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