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Parolefare: Post-prison Supervision and Low-Wage Work

Josh Seim, David J. Harding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 173-195; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.08
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aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California
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