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Criminal Justice and the Life Course

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Handbook of the Life Course

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Abstract

In this essay, we use Elder’s core concepts of context, timing, interdependency, and agency to examine the influence of the Criminal Justice System on the life course. In our review, we place the modern criminal justice system in historical context, examine the role it plays in driving life course outcomes and in the creation of social inequality. In so doing, we argue that the expansion of the criminal justice system since the 1970s in the United States has placed it alongside other important social institutions, such as the family, schools, and the labor market, in powerfully structuring not only the lives of former felons and inmates, but also those connected to them.

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    Note that Fig. 1 depicts imprisonment rates (incarceration in prisons) while Fig. 3 compares incarceration rates (incarceration rates in prisons and jails) hence the difference in overall rates across the figures.

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Wakefield, S., Apel, R. (2016). Criminal Justice and the Life Course. In: Shanahan, M., Mortimer, J., Kirkpatrick Johnson, M. (eds) Handbook of the Life Course. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_13

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