This study explores heterogeneity in the relationship between criminal justice contact and
early adult wages using unconditional quantile regression models with sibling fixed effects …

Existing research has shown that the rise of incarceration had a substantial effect on the
stabilizing forces of employment. The conditions and circumstances that render felony …

Spending time in prison has become an increasingly common life event for low-skill minority
men in the United States. The Bureau of Justice Statistics now estimates that one in three …

In just the last forty years, imprisonment has been transformed from an event experienced by
only the most marginalized to a common stage in the life course of American men …

Recent theoretical developments in the life-course perspective have focused on the effects
of criminal justice contact on many stratification outcomes. Using data from a large sample of …

This article documents arrest and conviction histories before age 26 years of Panel Study of
Income Dynamics (PSID) respondents using a retrospective module that I designed. I find …

A life course perspective on crime indicates that incarceration can disrupt key life transitions.
Life course analysis of occupations finds that earnings mobility depends on stable …

Research summary A growing literature documents the effect of criminal justice contact on
inequalities in the labor market. While ample evidence indicates that a criminal record itself …

With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners
released each year, the large and growing number of men being processed through the …

A growing literature documents deleterious consequences of incarceration for mental health.
Although salient, incarceration is only one form of criminal justice contact and, accordingly …