Criminal Justice and the Life Course

Sara Wakefield; Robert Apel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_13

Criminal Justice and the Life Course

Sara Wakefield, Robert Apel

School of Criminal Justice

Rutgers, The State University

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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.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	301-319
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_13
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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Social Psychology
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

Collateral consequences
Criminal justice
Incarceration
Inequality
Life course
Policing

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