D J Harding
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 31673 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D J Harding |
| NOMBRES | D J |
| APELLIDO | Harding |
| FIRMA | HARDING D J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2121-0790 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Narratives and destigmatization
Sociologists use the concept of narrative as an analytical tool and theoretical concept to understand the stories that people tell and their role in social and cultural life. A key tenet of prior research on narratives is their capacity to shape the audience’s understanding and evaluation of the narrator. In this mixed-method study, we investigate the role of narratives in destigmatization through the case of criminal record stigma in the labor m…
The Insight-Inference Loop
Modern computational text classification methods have brought social scientists tantalizingly close to the goal of unlocking vast insights buried in text data-from centuries of historical documents to streams of social media posts. Yet three barriers still stand in the way: the tedious labor of manual text annotation, the technical complexity that keeps these tools out of reach for many researchers, and, perhaps most critically, the challenge of …
Criminal Record Stigma in the Labor Market for College Graduates
One of the primary ways in which contact with the criminal legal system creates and maintains inequality is through the stigma of a criminal record. Although the negative effects of the stigma of a criminal record are well-documented, existing research is limited to the low-wage labor market. Through a job application audit design, this study examines the role of criminal record stigma in the labor market for recent college graduates across Black…
Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by results from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) residential mobility experiment. Using a within-study comparison design, this paper compares experimental and non-experimental estimates from MTO and a parallel analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Striking similarities were found between non-experimental estimates based…
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage
This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision. We examine the impact of being on supervision in Michigan on receiving a sentence of imprisonment—comparing the magnitude of the impact reflected in the formal sentencing guideline recommendation with deviations made by court actors. We find that the formal penalty for supervision s…
Rethinking Prisoner Reentry
With a focus on reentry after prison, we formulate an evidence-supported action plan for enhancing transitions from prison to society that focuses on increasing independence, reducing racial and ethnic disparities, and achieving public safety. Prisoner re-entry is a critical piece of any racial justice agenda as the lack of education or vocational training within carcer institutions impose barriers to job opportunities that, coupled with societal…
Parolefare
Josh Seim a, David J. Harding b, Parolefare: Post-prison Supervision and Low-Wage Work, 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. 173-195
Author Correction
Conclusion
The formerly incarcerated exhibit very low rates of employment, even many years after their release from prison. Low levels of human capital, distance from jobs, lack of transportation, and the stigma of a felony record explain the challenges of finding work after prison. Those who do find work do so through different strategies; applying for many jobs, leveraging social networks, and deploying cultural capital to counter the felony stigma, but m…
Chapter 2. Transitions
This chapter introduces the six focal participants who will be prominently featured throughout the book and describes the characteristics and prior experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals in the United States more broadly. The formerly incarcerated come from family backgrounds of extreme disadvantage, including high rates of poverty, low levels of education, foster care, trauma and victimization, family histories of substance abuse and m…
Chapter 5. Navigating Neighborhoods
This chapter examines the role of family relationships in prisoner reintegration. Romantic partners, children, siblings, parents, and other family members are important sources of material support, informal social control, and emotional support. They provide food, clothing, housing, and transportation. They monitor behavior, provide routines that encourage prosocial behavior, and motivate efforts to stay sober and find employment. They provide em…
Chapter 4. Families and Reintegration
Drawing on a broad definition of family, this chapter explores the challenges of reuniting with family and finding a stable home after release. Few formerly incarcerated individuals return to the residences where they were living before their imprisonment. This is because their families moved in the interim, because many live in institutional housing after release, and because many purposely try to avoid the social environments they experienced b…
Chapter 6. Finding and Maintaining Employment
Places and the people one interacts within them present opportunities to connect to employment, social services, friends and community groups. Yet although social networks embedded within neighborhoods may exert social control, they may also facilitate a return to drugs and crime. Neighborhoods also affect one’s chances for victimization, and determine proximity to jobs and social services. This chapter explains how participants navigate the dang…
Chapter 3. A Place to Call Home?
This chapter begins the study of the process of prisoner reentry and reintegration where this transition starts, in prison and in the days and weeks after release. It analyzes participants’ accounts of their experiences in prison and the impact of their incarceration on their social isolation, family ties, and other important relationships. It describes participants’ transition experiences immediately after release, as they recover from prisoniza…
Chapter 1. Trajectories
This chapter introduces the concept of reintegration, situates prisoner reentry and reintegration in the current era of mass incarceration, develops the conceptual framework of the book, describe the research methodology, and provides an overview of chapters. The conceptual framework, drawn in part from the literature on immigrant incorporation, emphasizes the social, economic, and institutional contexts of reentry, the social, economic, and cult…
Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison
Heather M. Harris, David J. Harding, Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 223-254
A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community
Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint
Population Growth, Migration, and Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the United States, 1940-1980
The proportion of U.S. prison inmates who were black increased dramatically between 1940 and 2000. While about two-thirds of the increase occurred between 1940 and 1970, most recent research analyzes the period after 1970, focusing on explanations such as the war on drugs, law-and-order politics, discrimination, inequality, and racial threat. We analyze the growth in the racial difference in incarceration between 1940 and 1980, focusing on the ro…
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Romantic Relationships and Criminal Desistance
In dominant theories of criminal desistance, marital relationship formation is understood to be a key "turning point" away from deviant behavior. Empirical studies supporting this claim have largely focused on the positive role of marriage in men's desistance from crime, and relatively few studies have examined the role that non-marital relationships may play in desistance. Drawing on 138 longitudinal in-depth interviews with 22 men and women ree…
Making Ends Meet After Prison
Former prisoners are at high risk of economic insecurity due to the challenges they face in finding employment and to the difficulties of securing and maintaining public assistance while incarcerated. This study examines the processes through which former prisoners attain economic security, examining how they meet basic material needs and achieve upward mobility over time. It draws on unique qualitative data from in-depth, unstructured interviews…
Cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research in the united states
This paper discusses the current state of the U.S. literature on cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research. We first define what we mean by neighborhood effects and by cultural mechanisms. We then review and critique two theoretical perspectives on the cultural context of disadvantaged neighborhoods that are explicitly integrated into recent neighborhood effects literature in the U.S.: "deviant subculture" and "cultural heterogeneity."…
Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional association between neighborhood disadvantage and high schoo…
Système pénal et marché du travail aux États-Unis
Gefängniswesen und Arbeitsmarkt in Amerika. Die gegenwärtig etwa 1,5 Millionen Personen umfassende Insassen-Bevölkerung der Gefängnisse und Zuchthäuser der Vereinigten Staaten im berufsfähigen Alter übt nennenswerte Wirkungen auf den dortigen Arbeitsmarkt aus. Diese Einflüsse werden im vorliegenden Artikel am Beispiel junger Angehöriger sozialer Minderheiten untersucht. Wenn die Zahl Inhaftierter zu derjenigen der Arbeitslosen hinzugezählt wird, …
Making Ends Meet After Prison
Former prisoners are at high risk of economic insecurity due to the challenges they face in finding employment and to the difficulties of securing and maintaining public assistance while incarcerated. This study examines the processes through which former prisoners attain economic security, examining how they meet basic material needs and achieve upward mobility over time. It draws on unique qualitative data from in-depth, unstructured interviews…
Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional association between neighborhood disadvantage and high schoo…
Parolefare
Josh Seim a, David J. Harding b, Parolefare: Post-prison Supervision and Low-Wage Work, 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. 173-195
Romantic Relationships and Criminal Desistance
In dominant theories of criminal desistance, marital relationship formation is understood to be a key "turning point" away from deviant behavior. Empirical studies supporting this claim have largely focused on the positive role of marriage in men's desistance from crime, and relatively few studies have examined the role that non-marital relationships may play in desistance. Drawing on 138 longitudinal in-depth interviews with 22 men and women ree…
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint
Cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research in the united states
This paper discusses the current state of the U.S. literature on cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research. We first define what we mean by neighborhood effects and by cultural mechanisms. We then review and critique two theoretical perspectives on the cultural context of disadvantaged neighborhoods that are explicitly integrated into recent neighborhood effects literature in the U.S.: "deviant subculture" and "cultural heterogeneity."…
A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community
Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison
Heather M. Harris, David J. Harding, Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 223-254
Système pénal et marché du travail aux États-Unis
Gefängniswesen und Arbeitsmarkt in Amerika. Die gegenwärtig etwa 1,5 Millionen Personen umfassende Insassen-Bevölkerung der Gefängnisse und Zuchthäuser der Vereinigten Staaten im berufsfähigen Alter übt nennenswerte Wirkungen auf den dortigen Arbeitsmarkt aus. Diese Einflüsse werden im vorliegenden Artikel am Beispiel junger Angehöriger sozialer Minderheiten untersucht. Wenn die Zahl Inhaftierter zu derjenigen der Arbeitslosen hinzugezählt wird, …
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage
This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision. We examine the impact of being on supervision in Michigan on receiving a sentence of imprisonment—comparing the magnitude of the impact reflected in the formal sentencing guideline recommendation with deviations made by court actors. We find that the formal penalty for supervision s…
Criminal Record Stigma in the Labor Market for College Graduates
One of the primary ways in which contact with the criminal legal system creates and maintains inequality is through the stigma of a criminal record. Although the negative effects of the stigma of a criminal record are well-documented, existing research is limited to the low-wage labor market. Through a job application audit design, this study examines the role of criminal record stigma in the labor market for recent college graduates across Black…
Population Growth, Migration, and Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the United States, 1940-1980
The proportion of U.S. prison inmates who were black increased dramatically between 1940 and 2000. While about two-thirds of the increase occurred between 1940 and 1970, most recent research analyzes the period after 1970, focusing on explanations such as the war on drugs, law-and-order politics, discrimination, inequality, and racial threat. We analyze the growth in the racial difference in incarceration between 1940 and 1980, focusing on the ro…
Town artist
Système pénal et marché du travail aux États-Unis
Gefängniswesen und Arbeitsmarkt in Amerika. Die gegenwärtig etwa 1,5 Millionen Personen umfassende Insassen-Bevölkerung der Gefängnisse und Zuchthäuser der Vereinigten Staaten im berufsfähigen Alter übt nennenswerte Wirkungen auf den dortigen Arbeitsmarkt aus. Diese Einflüsse werden im vorliegenden Artikel am Beispiel junger Angehöriger sozialer Minderheiten untersucht. Wenn die Zahl Inhaftierter zu derjenigen der Arbeitslosen hinzugezählt wird, …
Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional association between neighborhood disadvantage and high schoo…
Romantic Relationships and Criminal Desistance
In dominant theories of criminal desistance, marital relationship formation is understood to be a key "turning point" away from deviant behavior. Empirical studies supporting this claim have largely focused on the positive role of marriage in men's desistance from crime, and relatively few studies have examined the role that non-marital relationships may play in desistance. Drawing on 138 longitudinal in-depth interviews with 22 men and women ree…
Making Ends Meet After Prison
Former prisoners are at high risk of economic insecurity due to the challenges they face in finding employment and to the difficulties of securing and maintaining public assistance while incarcerated. This study examines the processes through which former prisoners attain economic security, examining how they meet basic material needs and achieve upward mobility over time. It draws on unique qualitative data from in-depth, unstructured interviews…
Cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research in the united states
This paper discusses the current state of the U.S. literature on cultural mechanisms in neighborhood effects research. We first define what we mean by neighborhood effects and by cultural mechanisms. We then review and critique two theoretical perspectives on the cultural context of disadvantaged neighborhoods that are explicitly integrated into recent neighborhood effects literature in the U.S.: "deviant subculture" and "cultural heterogeneity."…
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint
Population Growth, Migration, and Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the United States, 1940-1980
The proportion of U.S. prison inmates who were black increased dramatically between 1940 and 2000. While about two-thirds of the increase occurred between 1940 and 1970, most recent research analyzes the period after 1970, focusing on explanations such as the war on drugs, law-and-order politics, discrimination, inequality, and racial threat. We analyze the growth in the racial difference in incarceration between 1940 and 1980, focusing on the ro…
Conclusion
The formerly incarcerated exhibit very low rates of employment, even many years after their release from prison. Low levels of human capital, distance from jobs, lack of transportation, and the stigma of a felony record explain the challenges of finding work after prison. Those who do find work do so through different strategies; applying for many jobs, leveraging social networks, and deploying cultural capital to counter the felony stigma, but m…
Chapter 2. Transitions
This chapter introduces the six focal participants who will be prominently featured throughout the book and describes the characteristics and prior experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals in the United States more broadly. The formerly incarcerated come from family backgrounds of extreme disadvantage, including high rates of poverty, low levels of education, foster care, trauma and victimization, family histories of substance abuse and m…
Chapter 5. Navigating Neighborhoods
This chapter examines the role of family relationships in prisoner reintegration. Romantic partners, children, siblings, parents, and other family members are important sources of material support, informal social control, and emotional support. They provide food, clothing, housing, and transportation. They monitor behavior, provide routines that encourage prosocial behavior, and motivate efforts to stay sober and find employment. They provide em…
Chapter 4. Families and Reintegration
Drawing on a broad definition of family, this chapter explores the challenges of reuniting with family and finding a stable home after release. Few formerly incarcerated individuals return to the residences where they were living before their imprisonment. This is because their families moved in the interim, because many live in institutional housing after release, and because many purposely try to avoid the social environments they experienced b…
Chapter 6. Finding and Maintaining Employment
Places and the people one interacts within them present opportunities to connect to employment, social services, friends and community groups. Yet although social networks embedded within neighborhoods may exert social control, they may also facilitate a return to drugs and crime. Neighborhoods also affect one’s chances for victimization, and determine proximity to jobs and social services. This chapter explains how participants navigate the dang…
Chapter 3. A Place to Call Home?
This chapter begins the study of the process of prisoner reentry and reintegration where this transition starts, in prison and in the days and weeks after release. It analyzes participants’ accounts of their experiences in prison and the impact of their incarceration on their social isolation, family ties, and other important relationships. It describes participants’ transition experiences immediately after release, as they recover from prisoniza…
Chapter 1. Trajectories
This chapter introduces the concept of reintegration, situates prisoner reentry and reintegration in the current era of mass incarceration, develops the conceptual framework of the book, describe the research methodology, and provides an overview of chapters. The conceptual framework, drawn in part from the literature on immigrant incorporation, emphasizes the social, economic, and institutional contexts of reentry, the social, economic, and cult…
Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison
Heather M. Harris, David J. Harding, Racial Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood After Prison, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 223-254
A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community
Parolefare
Josh Seim a, David J. Harding b, Parolefare: Post-prison Supervision and Low-Wage Work, 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. 173-195
Author Correction
Rethinking Prisoner Reentry
With a focus on reentry after prison, we formulate an evidence-supported action plan for enhancing transitions from prison to society that focuses on increasing independence, reducing racial and ethnic disparities, and achieving public safety. Prisoner re-entry is a critical piece of any racial justice agenda as the lack of education or vocational training within carcer institutions impose barriers to job opportunities that, coupled with societal…
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage
This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision. We examine the impact of being on supervision in Michigan on receiving a sentence of imprisonment—comparing the magnitude of the impact reflected in the formal sentencing guideline recommendation with deviations made by court actors. We find that the formal penalty for supervision s…
Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by results from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) residential mobility experiment. Using a within-study comparison design, this paper compares experimental and non-experimental estimates from MTO and a parallel analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Striking similarities were found between non-experimental estimates based…
Criminal Record Stigma in the Labor Market for College Graduates
One of the primary ways in which contact with the criminal legal system creates and maintains inequality is through the stigma of a criminal record. Although the negative effects of the stigma of a criminal record are well-documented, existing research is limited to the low-wage labor market. Through a job application audit design, this study examines the role of criminal record stigma in the labor market for recent college graduates across Black…
Narratives and destigmatization
Sociologists use the concept of narrative as an analytical tool and theoretical concept to understand the stories that people tell and their role in social and cultural life. A key tenet of prior research on narratives is their capacity to shape the audience’s understanding and evaluation of the narrator. In this mixed-method study, we investigate the role of narratives in destigmatization through the case of criminal record stigma in the labor m…
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