01443nas a2200145   4500008004100000020001400041245015700055210006900212260003400281300001600315490000700331520074000338100002501078856019401103       2009                        eng d  a0897-654600aCriminal Punishment, Labor Market Outcomes, and Economic Inequality: Devah Pager's Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration0 aCriminal Punishment Labor Market Outcomes and Economic Inequalit  bBlackwell Publishingc2009///  a1039 - 10600 v343 a<p>A growing empirical literature examines the role of incarceration in labor market outcomes and economic inequality more broadly. Devah Pager's book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (2007), offers compelling evidence that employment opportunities for former prisoners-especially black former prisoners-are bleak. I review Pager's methods and findings, place them in the context of previous work, and discuss the relation of race to a criminal record. I then explore several lines of related research that investigate the increasing reach of criminal punishment into various social realms. One goal of this essay is to draw research on economic inequality into the law and society literature.</p>1 aBurkhardt, Brett, C.  uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/sociology/criminal-punishment-labor-market-outcomes-and-economic-inequality-devah-pagers-marked-race-crime-and-finding-work-era-mass-incarceration