PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David S. Kirk
TI  - Where the Other 1 Percent Live: An Examination of Changes in the Spatial Concentration of the Formerly Incarcerated
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.11
DP  - 2019 Feb 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 255--274
VI  - 5
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/255.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/255.full
AB  - Traditionally, prisoner reentry has been regarded as an urban phenomenon, with most returning prisoners concentrating into a select few disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. However, metropolitan-area changes—including the demolition of public housing, the suburbanization of poverty, and desegregation—may have altered the prevailing spatial distribution of returning prisoners, thereby spreading the challenges of prisoner reintegration to new geographic domains. Accordingly, I examine the extent to which the geographic distribution of formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago and Illinois has changed since the late 1990s, including both the causes and consequences of changes, drawing on sixteen years of prisoner release data from the Illinois Department of Corrections, combined with data from the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey, the Chicago Police Department, and the Chicago Housing Authority.