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Becky Pettit

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#1828

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#2052

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#625

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Becky Pettit's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Washington
Masters Sociology University of Washington
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth M. "Becky" Pettit is an American sociologist with expertise in demography. She has been a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin, as well as an affiliate at its Population Research Center, since 2014. She is an advocate for decarceration in the United States.

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Becky Pettit's Published Works

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Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration (2004) (1257)
Incarceration & social inequality (2010) (340)
The Structure of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective (2005) (333)
Black‐White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration1 (2005) (316)
Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (2012) (291)
Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (2016) (226)
Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Men's Employment (2000) (208)
Incarceration and social inequality. (2010) (150)
Compounded Disadvantage: Race, Incarceration, and Wage Growth (2011) (123)
Mass Incarceration, Family Complexity, and the Reproduction of Childhood Disadvantage (2014) (122)
Mass imprisonment and the life course (2004) (112)
Residential Mobility and Children's Social Capital: Evidence from an Experiment* (2003) (92)
Incarceration and the Legitimate Labor Market: Examining Age-Graded Effects on Employment and Wages (2009) (86)
Moving and Children's Social Connections: Neighborhood Context and the Consequences of Moving for Low-Income Families (2004) (73)
Longer episodes of community residential care reduce substance abuse patients' readmission rates. (1995) (63)
Gendered tradeoffs : family, social policy, and economic inequality in twenty-one countries (2009) (58)
Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality (2002) (54)
Cardiovascular Disease in Incarcerated Populations. (2017) (52)
The Degree of Disadvantage (2014) (51)
Employment gains and wage declines: The erosion of black women’s relative wages since 1980 (2009) (46)
The Impact Of The Los Angeles Moving Opportunity Program On Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Characteristics, And Early Child And Parent Outcomes (1998) (42)
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic (2016) (41)
Gendered Tradeoffs: Women, Family, and Workplace Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (2009) (35)
Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion: Mass Incarceration and the Masking of Inequality (2015) (34)
Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality. (2018) (30)
Public Opinion and Political Vulnerability: Why Has the National Endowment for the Arts Been Such an Attractive Target? (1999) (27)
Severe Deprivation and System Inclusion Among Children of Incarcerated Parents in the United States After the Great Recession (2015) (26)
The Broad Scope and Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence From Eight States (2020) (24)
Reproducing Occupational Inequality: Motherhood and Occupational Segregation (2016) (22)
Characteristics and outcomes of three models of community residential care for substance abuse patients (1995) (22)
Public Sentiments Towards the Arts: A Critical Reanalysis of 13 Opinion Surveys (1997) (15)
Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom (2010) (14)
Surveys of Public Attitudes toward the Arts: What Surveys Tell Us about the Arts' Political Trials--and How They Might Tell Us Even More. (1999) (14)
Children Who Could Have Been: The Legacy of Child Welfare in Wealthy America (2000) (13)
What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research (2022) (12)
Incomparable Punishments: How Economic Inequality Contributes to the Disparate Impact of Legal Fines and Fees (2022) (12)
A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America (2018) (12)
Resources for studying public participation in and attitudes towards the arts (2000) (11)
Black-White Earnings Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration (2005) (11)
Cultural capital and residential mobility: A model of impersistence in place (1999) (10)
Moving and Children's Social Connections: The Critical Importance of Context (2000) (8)
Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. By Peter K. Enns. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii+192. $99.99 (cloth); $24.99 (paper). (2018) (8)
Measuring the Exposure of Parents and Children to Incarceration (2019) (7)
Employment and Health Among Recently Incarcerated Men Before and After the Affordable Care Act (2009-2017). (2020) (6)
Making Sense of Misdemeanors: Fine Only Offenses in Convivial Court Rooms (2020) (5)
Status and the stigma of incarceration (2007) (5)
Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies: An Integrated Approach (2019) (5)
Becky Pettit and Bruce Western Incarceration Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course : Race and Class Inequality in U (2009) (5)
Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Voter Turnout (2011) (4)
The Demographic Implications of the Prison Boom : Evidence of a “ Third Demographic Transition ” ? (2008) (4)
Incarceration Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. (2011) (4)
The Demographic Implications of the Prison Boom (2008) (3)
Resources for Studying Public Participation in the Arts: Inventory and Review of Available Survey Data on North Americans' Participation in and Attitudes Towards the Arts (1997) (3)
Review of “Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment” (2021) (3)
The Degree of Disadvantage: Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Education (2010) (3)
Public Sentiments towards the Arts: A Critical Reanalysis of 13 Public Opinion Surveys (Report to Pew Charitable Trusts) (1997) (2)
Characteristics and outcomes of three models of community residential care for abuse patients. (1995) (2)
1 REPRODUCING OCCUPATIONAL INEQUALITY : MOTHERHOOD AND OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION (2015) (1)
Becoming Adult in America (1998) (1)
Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America (2014) (1)
Choice or Constraint? Mass Incarceration and Fertility Outcomes Among American Men ∗ (2010) (1)
Reproducing occupational inequality: Marriage, parenthood and the gender divide in occupations (2008) (1)
Bruce Western and Becky Pettit Beyond Crime and Punishment : Prisons and Inequality (2003) (0)
Confronting Race in American Criminal Justice Reform (2020) (0)
Book Review: Prison state: The challenges of mass incarceration, Bert Useem and Anne Morrison Piehl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 236 pp. $24.99 (pbk). ISBN13: 9780521713399 (2010) (0)
& Becky Incarceration & social inequality (2010) (0)
(Reseña) Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Socil Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries. (2010) (0)
Tradeoffs and paradoxes in the pursuit of gender equality in the labour market (2014) (0)
Book Review: From the war on poverty to the war on crime: The making of mass incarceration in America (2018) (0)
Bruce Western & Becky Incarceration & social inequality (2010) (0)
Bruce Western & Becky (2010) (0)
The Future of the Family, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, & Lee Rainwater (2005) (0)
Home > Weighing in on Inequality: Obesity among Low and High SES Children WEIGHING IN ON INEQUALITY: OBESITY AMONG LOW AND HIGH SES CHILDREN (2020) (0)
Bruce Western and Becky Pettit Beyond Crime and Punishment : Prisons and Inequality (2003) (0)
"Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment" by Leah Ruppanner (review) (2022) (0)

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