TY - JOUR T1 - Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison JF - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences SP - 223 LP - 254 DO - 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.10 VL - 5 IS - 1 AU - Heather M. Harris AU - David J. Harding Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/223.abstract N2 - That formerly incarcerated black men experience poor life-course outcomes relative to other subpopulations is well established, yet our ongoing research indicates substantial racial inequality in outcomes among the formerly incarcerated. Young, black former prisoners lag behind their white counterparts in achieving traditional adulthood markers: education, employment, and residential independence. We examine explanations for these inequalities using longitudinal administrative data on a cohort of male parolees age eighteen to twenty-five. We find that early postprison experiences and social context explain some variation. Considerable racial inequality persists, however, even as we control for pre- and postprison life-course conditions, criminal justice contact, and social context. We discuss this in relation to estimates of discrimination, stigma, and social networks not observable in our data. ER -