Although growth in the US prison population over the past twenty-five years has been widely
discussed, few studies examine changes in inequality in imprisonment. We study penal …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the Causes …

… in America, sociologist Bruce Western explores the recent era … recent reductions in crime,
Western shows that the decrease … Western finds that because of their involvement in the penal …

Dædalus Summer 2010 9 population in prison or jail on an average day. From 1980 to 2008,
the US incarceration rate climbed from 221 to 762 per 100,000. In the previous ½ve …

The historic increase in US incarceration rates made the transition from prison to community
common for poor, prime-age men and women. Leaving prison presents the challenge of …

Released in 1965, the Moynihan Report traced the severe social and economic distress of
poor urban African Americans to high rates of single-parenthood. Against Moynihan's calls for …

… In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release …
Western and his research team conducted comprehensive interviews with men and women …

Rapid growth of the US penal population over the last two decades has coincided with a
decline in the number of welfare recipients. While shifts in crime rates, economic and political …

In this article, the authors report the results of a large-scale field experiment conducted in
New York City investigating the effects of race and a prison record on employment. Teams of …

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that
discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary …