Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

Mass incarceration has fundamental adverse effects that include weakening families and
intimate relationships, altering children's life chances, and undermining communities …

The American incarceration rate, though recently stabilized, increased rapidly over the past
half century. Today, compared with the 1970s, more than five times as many people spend …

The association between recent release from incarceration and dramatically increased risk
of fatal overdose is well-established at the individual level. Fatal overdose and …

Leveraging the richness of population register data in Denmark, this study provides an in-
depth examination of the residential situations of the formerly incarcerated over the first 3 …

The criminal legal system is a “stratifying institution” insofar as it reflects inequalities by
selecting already marginalized people into the system, worsens existing inequalities via a …

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on
interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on …

Abstract Neighborhoods across the United States are shaped by the criminal justice system
and socioeconomic inequality. This article examines whether multiple forms of criminal …

For most formerly incarcerated people, the transition from prison to free society is fraught
with challenges and constraints, some of which can persist for years, even decades, after …

In this chapter, we outline the collateral consequences of incarceration on communities. To
understand individuals' preincarceration environments, we highlight how communities are …