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Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor

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Smith, Sandra Susan, Simon, Jonathan·2020·RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Sandra Susan Smith a, Jonathan Simon b, Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 1-27

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  • Christopher Muller's work provides one example of how coupling labor exploitation and exclusion with slavery and its aftermath can explain variation in Black and White incarceration rates across place and over time.

    “While not a theory of the origins of the carceral state per se, the sociologist Christopher Muller's work provides one example of how coupling labor exploitation and exclusion with slavery and its aftermath can explain variation in Black and White incarceration rates across place and over time (Muller 2012(Muller , 2021; see also Smith and Simon 2020).”

    From The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System (2025) · cites this paper as Smith and Simon 2020

    The supplied passage on prison labor (section labeled References; page unavailable) links the end of slavery in the South to convict leasing and the exploitation of Black prisoners. The paper also discusses labor exclusion and extraction, but the passages do not show that this combination explains variation in Black and White incarceration rates across places and over time, or present it as an example from Muller’s work. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Smith, S. S., & Simon, J.
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University of California, Berkeley (US)
ORCID
Simon, Jonathan
Venue
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Published
2020-03
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
1-27
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  • 2377-8253 (ISSN-L)
  • 2377-8261
DOI
10.7758/rsf.2020.6.1.01
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W3016550867
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33
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Keywords
criminal justice system contact, labour market exclusion, labor reallocation, incarceration, labour market institutions, criminal records, reentry

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