Mass imprisonment and the life course revisited: Cumulative years spent imprisoned and marked for working-age black and white men
EJ Patterson, C Wildeman - Social Science Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last 40 years, imprisonment has become a common stage in the life-course for low-
skilled and minority men, with implications not only for inequality among adult men but also
for inequality more broadly. Unfortunately, all research documenting how increases in
imprisonment have transformed the life-course of poor, minority men has neglected to
estimate how much time black and white men on average spend imprisoned or marked as
an ex-prisoner. In this article, we fill this gap by using multistate life tables to estimate what …
skilled and minority men, with implications not only for inequality among adult men but also
for inequality more broadly. Unfortunately, all research documenting how increases in
imprisonment have transformed the life-course of poor, minority men has neglected to
estimate how much time black and white men on average spend imprisoned or marked as
an ex-prisoner. In this article, we fill this gap by using multistate life tables to estimate what …