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Contributors MARY PATTILLO is associate professor of sociology and African American studies and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. DAVID WEIMAN is Alena Wels Hirschorn ’58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. BRUCE WESTERN is professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. KATHRYN EDIN is associate professor of sociology and research associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. HARRY J. HOLZER is professor at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, and visiting fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. ELIZABETH I. JOHNSON is a doctoral candidate in social work and developmental psychology at the University of Michigan. LEONARD M. LOPOO is assistant professor of public administration at Syracuse University. JAMES P. LYNCH is professor and chair of the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University. JEFF MANZA is professor of sociology and associate director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. viii Contributors SARA MCLANAHAN is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. TIMOTHY J. NELSON is assistant research professor at the Institute for Policy Research and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. ANNE M. NURSE is associate professor of sociology at The College of Wooster. RECHELLE PARANAL is project coordinator at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. STEVEN RAPHAEL is associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. WILLIAM J. SABOL is assistant director at the U.S. General Accounting Office. MICHAEL A. STOLL is associate professor at the School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles. JEREMY TRAVIS is president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, former senior fellow of the Urban Institute, and former director of the National Institute of Justice. CHRISTOPHER UGGEN is professor and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. JANE WALDFOGEL is professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University. ...

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