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Institutional Castling: Military Enlistment and Mass Incarceration in the United States

Bryan L. Sykes, Amy Kate Bailey
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 30-54; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.02
Bryan L. Sykes
aAssistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and Sociology and Public Health, by courtesy, at the University of California, Irvine
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Amy Kate Bailey
bAssociate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois–Chicago and visiting faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
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Bryan L. Sykes, Amy Kate Bailey
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    • LABOR MARKET STRUCTURE, THE MILITARY, AND PENAL SYSTEM EXPOSURE
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