RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Post-prison Employment Quality and Future Criminal Justice Contact JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences FD Russell Sage Foundation SP 154 OP 172 DO 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.07 VO 6 IS 1 A1 Joe LaBriola YR 2020 UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/6/1/154.abstract AB Several theories linking post-prison employment to recidivism suggest that the quality of employment has a causal effect on future criminal justice contact. However, previous work testing these theories has not accounted for differential selection into high-quality employment. Using six years of post-release employment records, I document how post-prison job quality varies by industry. Then, I use inverse propensity score weighting to estimate the effect of job quality on future arrests and prison spells. Some evidence indicates that parolees who find high-quality employment experience fewer arrests or returns to prison than otherwise similar parolees who find low-quality employment, with the effects most evident when comparing employment in the highest- and lowest-quality industries. Low-quality employment does not appear to reduce future criminal justice contact relative to unemployment.