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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration Paperback – Illustrated, April 15, 2009

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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, 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: those 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.

“Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job. . . . Both informative and convincing.”—Library Journal

“Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose—and one of the most useful sociological studies in years.”—Michael Eric Dyson

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248 pages
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English
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University of Chicago Press
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April 15, 2009
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9.02 x 6.04 x 0.63 inches
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0226644847
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978-0226644844
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Devah Pager is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition (April 15, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226644847
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226644844
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.02 x 6.04 x 0.63 inches

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Karen Franklin

Timely scholarship

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2007

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If this depressing book cannot convince people that racism is alive and well in America today, I don't know what could. Dr. Pager reports on an empirical research project in which teams of well-put-together white and black college students went job-hunting in and around Milwaukee, with one member of each team "marked" as an ex-convict. What she found is astonishing. Black job applicants WITHOUT drug convictions fared no better than white ex-cons WITH convictions; with "two strikes" against them, black men with a drug conviction had almost no chance of getting a call-back from a prospective employer. This problem was especially pronounced in the suburbs, which are gaining an increasing proportion of jobs despite the fact that many job-seekers remain in the cities. Dr. Pager also includes informative and well-written chapters on the state of mass incarceration in the United States today, as well as the massive and growing problem of prisoner reentry. With more than 600,000 people pouring out of prisons each year, Dr. Pager's book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the public policy aspects of the reentry problem. This is yet another excellent entry into the recent crop of books cataloging the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment. (See my Amazon list on "Prison World" for more.)

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A modern classic study

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Pager's study on the stigma of a criminal record is seminal and deserves a place beside Sherif's Robbers Cave study and Milgram's obedience to authority experiment.

On a personal note, I must have cited Pager's paper in a dozen or two essays as an undergrad, shoehorning references even in art history assignments. This book is a grand and thorough expansion of the published paper, and while the Kindle version could do with formatting updates to its citations and table of contents, I know I will use it as an invaluable reference in future research.

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Vincent Liu

Great book! Many findings listed in the book is ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2018

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Great book! Many findings listed in the book is pretty interesting and could provoke thoughts. Required by the professor but felling in love with it when reading. Strongly suggested!

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2014

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An absolute MUST READ if you are in the social work, social justice, criminal justice, sociology, or similar professions. This clearly explains how the US justice system is *not* meant for justice after all. Eye opening!

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2013

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I want to buy more copies of this book ! Very insightful and well written. Devah Pagers did an outstanding job !

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2012

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I have read about 4 books on mass incarceration so far this month, and this one was probably in the middle in terms of useful information.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2007

This book is loaded with useful information for the student of corrections, criminology and/or sociology. While this is a book rich with very well done research, Pager's honest admission that low sample numbers in her research, (which need to be expanded on to bolster confidence in results), might undermine the message to some policy makers.

Also, while Pager recommends a few ideas, the book seems to offer more in the way of what is going on and not as much about what to do about it. However, in my opinion, the paucity of solutions contributes to this as an objective piece of research.

The bottom line is that this is a very relevant and important book that should start a dialogue.

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