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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue4,P.443-463

语言

英文

关键字

RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY; RECIDIVISM; INCARCERATION; COMMUNITY; CONTEXT; TRAJECTORIES; METROPOLIS; PAROLEES; IMPACT; POOR

作者单位

[Simes, Jessica T.] Boston Univ, Sociol, Boston, MA 02215 USA. Simes, JT (reprint author), Boston Univ, Dept Sociol, 100 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 USA. E-Mail: simes@bu.edu

摘要

More than 600,000 people leave prison and become residents of neighborhoods across the United States annually. Using a longitudinal survey of people returning to Greater Boston, this study examines disparities in neighborhood attainment after prison. Accounting for levels of pre-prison neighborhood disadvantage, Black and Hispanic respondents moved into significantly more disadvantaged areas than Whites. Neighborhood residence was not attained by all: One-quarter of respondents left prison and entered formal institutional settings or lived in extreme social marginality throughout Boston. Neighborhood attachment was patterned by criminal justice involvement and experiences of material hardship in the year after prison. Findings indicate that housing insecurity, re-incarceration, and profound racial disparities in neighborhood context explain the ecological structure of social inequality in urban neighborhoods in an era of mass incarceration.