Marked
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Marked

Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

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Marked

Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

About this book

Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding their lives.

The product of an innovative field experiment, Marked gives us our first real glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market. Devah Pager matched up pairs of young men, randomly assigned them criminal records, then sent them on hundreds of real job searches throughout the city of Milwaukee. Her applicants were attractive, articulate, and capable—yet ex-offenders received less than half the callbacks of the equally qualified applicants without criminal backgrounds. Young black men, meanwhile, paid a particularly high price: those with clean records fared no better in their job searches than white men just out of prison. Such shocking barriers to legitimate work, Pager contends, are an important reason that many ex-prisoners soon find themselves back in the realm of poverty, underground employment, and crime that led them to prison in the first place.

"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job. . . . Both informative and convincing."—Library Journal

"Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose—and one of the most useful sociological studies in years."—Michael Eric Dyson

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Mass
Incarceration
and
the
Problems
of
Prisoner
Reentry
27
failures,
related
to
prisoner
reentry
represents
an
important
step
toward
policy
development
in
this
area.
To
what
extent
do
employers
avoid
applicants
with
criminal
records?
Does
their
reaction
depend
on
the
race
of
the
applicant?
What
are
the
conditions
under
which
employers
may
be
more
or
less
willing
to
hire
ex-
offenders?
It
is
to
these
questions
that
we
turn
in
the
remainder
of
the
book.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Mass Incarceration and the Problems of Prisoner Reentry
  6. 2 The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration
  7. 3 Measuring the Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration
  8. 4 The Mark of a Criminal Record
  9. 5 The Mark of Race
  10. 6 Two Strikes and You’re Out: The Intensification of Racialand Criminal Stigma
  11. 7 But What If . . .? Variations on the Experimental Design
  12. 8 Conclusion: Missing the Mark
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index