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

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Author: Devah Pager
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0226644839
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.5108996073
EAN: 9780226644837
ASIN: 0226644839

Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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DIVP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"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./PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" The product of an innovative field experiment, IMarked/I 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#8212;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./PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" /PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"#8220;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.#8221;#8212;ILibrary Journal/I/PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"I/I /PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"#8220;IMarked/I is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose#8212;and one of the most useful sociological studies in years.#8221;#8212;Michael Eric Dyson/PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" /PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" /P/DIV

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Prison employee December 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This book is loaded with useful information for the student of corrections, criminology and/or sociology. While this is a book rich with very well done research, Pager's honest admission that low sample numbers in her research, (which need to be expanded on to bolster confidence in results), might undermine the message to some policy makers.br /br /Also, while Pager recommends a few ideas, the book seems to offer more in the way of what is going on and not as much about what to do about it. However, in my opinion, the paucity of solutions contributes to this as an objective piece of research.br /br /The bottom line is that this is a very relevant and important book that should start a dialogue.

5 out of 5 stars

Timely scholarship September 10, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

If this depressing book cannot convince people that racism is alive and well in America today, I don't know what could. Dr. Pager reports on an empirical research project in which teams of well-put-together white and black college students went job-hunting in and around Milwaukee, with one member of each team "marked" as an ex-convict. What she found is astonishing. Black job applicants WITHOUT drug convictions fared no better than white ex-cons WITH convictions; with "two strikes" against them, black men with a drug conviction had almost no chance of getting a call-back from a prospective employer. This problem was especially pronounced in the suburbs, which are gaining an increasing proportion of jobs despite the fact that many job-seekers remain in the cities. Dr. Pager also includes informative and well-written chapters on the state of mass incarceration in the United States today, as well as the massive and growing problem of prisoner reentry. With more than 600,000 people pouring out of prisons each year, Dr. Pager's book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the public policy aspects of the reentry problem. This is yet another excellent entry into the recent crop of books cataloging the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment. (See my Amazon list on "Prison World" for more.)

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