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The Institute for Policy Research
at Northwestern University
IPR Policy Briefing
Supported with funding from the Joyce Foundation
The Prison
Effect: Consequences
of Mass Incarceration for the U.S.
Over the past three decades, the U.S. prison population has skyrocketed.
Two million people are currently in prison—six times as many
as in 1972. This year alone, more than 600,000 prisoners will be
released. The effects of this massive prison population stretch
to the very foundations of our communities and society. In this
briefing, three experts will present new research findings about
the destabilizing effects of America’s prison population and
prisoner re-entry on families, work, and political participation.
Panelists and
Presentations:
“Prisoner Re-entry: The Problems
of Employment”
Devah
Pager, Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research;
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University; author of
The Mark of a Criminal Record: Race, Crime, and Getting
a Job (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
Click here to see PowerPoint
presentation
“Children with Fathers in Prison
and their Transition to Adulthood”
John
Hagan, IPR Faculty Associate; John D. MacArthur Professor
of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University; co-author of Mean
Streets: Youth Crime and
Homelessness (Cambridge University
Press, 1998)
Click here to see PowerPoint
presentation
“The Disenfranchisement and
Civic Reintegration of Felons”
Jeff Manza,
IPR Acting Director and Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Sociology,
Northwestern University; co-author of Locked Out: Felon
Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford
University Press, forthcoming Nov. 2005)
Click here to see PowerPoint
presentation
Click here for more information
on the presentations and panelists.
Click
here for complete video
(4k/43 min.)
Friday, May 13
12:00-1:30 p.m.
First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, 13th
Floor
529 14th St., NW
Washington, D.C.
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