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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration.(Brief article)(Book review)
MARKED: RACE, CRIME, AND FINDING WORK IN AN ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION
By Devah Pager
University of Chicago Press, 256 pages
AT FIRST GLANCE, Princeton sociologist Devah Pager's first book seems superfluous. The growth of the prison industrial complex is well documented. We've heard the alarming statistics: More than two million people are currently incarcerated in the United States with nearly five million on parole or probation. Blacks make up 40 percent of the prison population, even though they represent just 12 percent of the total population. Do we really need another book that tells us something we already know?
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