Imprisoning America

by Pattillo, Mary; Weiman, David F.; Western, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780871546524
• ISBN10: 0871546523
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Chapter 1 Introduction	1	(20)
Bruce Western, Mary Pattillo, and David Weiman
PART I FAMILIES
Chapter 2 Incarceration and the Bonds Between Parents in Fragile Families	21	(25)
Bruce Western, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Sara McLanahan
Chapter 3 Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men	46	(30)
Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal
Chapter 4 Returning to Strangers: Newly Paroled Young Fathers and Their Children	76	(21)
Anne M. Nurse
Chapter 5 Children of Incarcerated Parents: Multiple Risks and Children's Living Arrangements	97	(38)
Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane Waldfogel
PART II COMMUNITIES
Chapter 6 Effects of Incarceration on Informal Social Control in Communities	135	(30)
James P. Lynch and William J. Sabol
Chapter 7 Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disenfranchised Felons	165	(40)
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza
Chapter 8 Will Employers Hire Former Offenders?: Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants	205	(42)
Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll
CONCLUSION
Chapter 9 Reentry and Reintegration: New Perspectives on the Challenges of Mass Incarceration	247	(22)
Jeremy Travis
Index	269