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Criminal Records, Positive Employment Credentials, and Race:
Samuel E. DeWitt,Megan Denver +1 more
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In this paper, the authors assess the impact of positive credentials on perceptions of individuals with criminal records and whether the effects of credentials differ by the type of conviction or the criminal record.Abstract:
Objectives:To assess the impact of positive credentials on perceptions of individuals with criminal records and whether the effects of credentials differ by the type of conviction or the criminal r...read more
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Outsiders Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.
TL;DR: In the 1966 paperback edition of a publication which first appeared in 1963 has by now been widely reviewed as a worthy contribution to the sociological study of deviant behavior as discussed by the authors, and the authors developed a sequential model of deviance relying on the concept of career, a concept originally developed in studies of occupations.
A practical guide to the American Community Survey (3-year estimates)
TL;DR: The American Community Survey (ACS) as discussed by the authors has been conducted on an ongoing basis for the entire country since 2005 and has been shown to be more accurate than the traditional decennial census.
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. By Devah Pager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+248. $25.00.
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Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review
TL;DR: In the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment as discussed by the authors, where harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring inmates from re-offending, and they have been successfully applied to a wide range of crimes.
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.
Melvin L. DeFleur,Erving Goffman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between information control and personal identity, including the Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering.
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Job Market Signaling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model in which signaling is implicitly defined and explains its usefulness, in which the employer is not sure of the productive capabilities of an individual at the time he/she hires him.
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of investment in education and training on earnings and employment are discussed. But the authors focus on the relationship between age and earnings and do not explore the relation between education and fertility.
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Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis
William Kruskal,W. Allen Wallis +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a test of the hypothesis that the samples are from the same population may be made by ranking the observations from from 1 to Σn i (giving each observation in a group of ties the mean of the ranks tied for), finding the C sums of ranks, and computing a statistic H. Under the stated hypothesis, H is distributed approximately as χ2(C − 1), unless the samples were too small, in which case special approximations or exact tables are provided.
Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
TL;DR: The authors presented new demographic data about the Mechanical Turk subject population, reviewed the strengths of Mechanical Turk relative to other online and offline methods of recruiting subjects, and compared the magnitude of effects obtained using Mechanical Turk and traditional subject pools.