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Post-prison Employment Quality and Future Criminal Justice Contact

Joe LaBriola
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 154-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.07
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