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Schmitt, J., & Warner, K. (2011). Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market. The Journal of Labor & Society, 14, 87-109.

In 2008, the U.S. had between 12 and 14 million ex‐offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex‐offenders’ prospects in the labor market, we estimate that this large population lowered the total male employment rate in 2008 by 1.5 to 1.7 percentage points. About one in seventeen adult men …

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Bond, G. D., & Lee, A. Y. (2005). Language of lies in prison: Linguistic classification of prisoners& #39; truthful and deceptive natural language.

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software was used to code truthful and deceptive words in prisoners’ natural language. Reality Monitoring (RM) and Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, & Richards’ (NP, 2003) models were used. NP indicates that lies contain fewer self‐references, other references, and exclusive words, and higher numbers of negative emotion and motion words. Higher …

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