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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research,
development and evaluation agency of the US Department of Justice.
The NIJ is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of
crime and justice issues through science. NIJ provides objective
and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and promote
justice, particularly at the state and local levels. Each year, the
NIJ publishes and sponsors dozens of research and study documents
detailing results, analyses and statistics that help to further the
organization's mission. These documents relate to topics like
biometrics, corrections technology, gun violence, digital
forensics, human trafficking, electronic crime, terrorism, tribal
justice and more. This document is one of these publications.
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--a number that has exploded in recent
decades with the growth of the prison system--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 for the widespread
assumptions about black criminality that underlie our era of mass
incarceration: black applicants 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.
Drawing much-needed attention to a problem that will continue to
grow in coming years, "Marked" will ignite important debates over
incarceration, discrimination, and the failures of our criminal
justice system.
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Marked (Hardcover)
Devah Pager
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R1,511
Discovery Miles 15 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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--a number that has exploded in recent
decades with the growth of the prison system--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 for the widespread
assumptions about black criminality that underlie our era of mass
incarceration: black applicants 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.
Drawing much-needed attention to a problem that will continue to
grow in coming years, "Marked" will ignite important debates over
incarceration, discrimination, and the failures of our criminal
justice system.
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