NDLI: The Absorbing Status of Incarceration and its Relationship with Wealth Accumulation

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Author	Maroto, Michelle Lee
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This study extends our knowledge on the negative effects of incarceration to the accumulation of wealth by examining whether, how, and how much incarceration affects home ownership and net worth. It also investigates how these outcomes vary with the time since a person was incarcerated and the number of incarceration periods, along with addressing potential mechanisms behind this relationship.I apply hybrid mixed effects models that disaggregate within- and between person variation to investigate incarceration’s relationship with home ownership and net worth, using National Longitudinal Study of Youth data from 1985 to 2008. I also incorporate a set of mediation models in order to test for indirect effects of incarceration on wealth through earnings, health, and family formation.My results show that incarceration limits wealth accumulation. Compared to never-incarcerated persons, ex-offenders are less likely to own their homes by an average of 5 percentage points, and their probability of home ownership decreases by an additional 28 percentage points after incarceration. Ex-offenders’ net worth also decreases by an average of $42,000 in the years after incarceration.When combined with previous research on incarceration, my findings show that incarceration acts as an absorbing status, potentially leading to the accumulation of disadvantage. Although incarceration’s negative effects on wealth accumulation were partially mediated by its relationship with earnings and family formation, incarceration directly affected home ownership and net worth. In most cases, former inmates began with flatter wealth trajectories and experienced additional losses after incarceration.
Starting Page	207
Ending Page	236
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07484518
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737799
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-08-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Incarceration Stratification Cumulative disadvantage Wealth Home ownership Criminology & Criminal Justice Sociology Methodology of the Social Sciences Statistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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