How might parole operate as a labor market institution, and how might it contribute to the
governance of poverty and social marginality? Drawing on a series of correctional …

Although the labor market consequences of incarceration in prison have been central to the
literature on mass incarceration, punishment, and inequality, other components of the …

In this paper, we assess whether the availability of employment opportunities impacts the
likelihood that a paroled ex-offenders is returned to custody. Using administrative data from …

Prior research has shown that employed parolees are less likely to recidivate. Yet, these
studies often ignore the underlying employment context of the neighborhoods to which …

Scholars have persuasively argued that US penal and welfare institutions comprise a single
policy regime that has taken a punitive turn with carceral expansion and welfare contraction …

Decisions tied to parole release, supervision, and revocation are major determinants of the
ebb and flow of prison populations across two-thirds of US states. We argue that parole …

Across a variety of measures of safety and rehabilitation, our current systems of parole and
probation are failing. Research shows that community supervision fails to reduce crime; …

A long sociological tradition has examined how state coercion undergirds the “free market”
for labor. In the contemporary prison, however, there are signs this relationship has been …

Parolee deviance has emerged as a central issue in policy debates about crime and
punishment in American society as well as in scholarship on “mass incarceration.” Although …

The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections
between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the …