Bruce Western
Impact in
- Public Administration top 0.2%
- Labor Movements and Unions
- General Health Professions top 0.05%
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
Papers in
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- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis 45
- Crime Patterns and Interventions 31
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies 11
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- Homelessness and Social Issues 33
- Employment and Welfare Studies 14
- Co-authors
- Becky Pettit (10 shared papers)Devah Pager (9 shared papers)Katherine Beckett (6 shared papers)Christopher Wildeman (4 shared papers)Bart Bonikowski (3 shared papers)Jake Rosenfeld (3 shared papers)Martina Morris (1 shared paper)Leonard M. Lopoo (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- American Sociological Review (11 papers)Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (7 papers)American Journal of Sociology (6 papers)Sociological Methodology (5 papers)The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (5 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyCanada
In The Last Decade
Bruce Western
124 papers receiving 9.8k citations
Bruce Western's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 157
- Public Administration 983
- General Health Professions 4.1k
- Sociology and Political Science 7.7k
- Gender Studies 1.1k
- Health 804
Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Western
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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Western
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Bruce Western, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 1054 |
| 2 | Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 766 |
| 3 | Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 536 |
| 4 | 2002 | 488 | |
| 5 | INEQUALITY IN EARNINGS AT THE CLOSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 440 |
| 6 | 2001 | 404 | |
| 7 | Incarceration & social inequality Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 366 |
| 8 | The Black Family and Mass Incarceration Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 359 |
| 9 | 2001 | 358 | |
| 10 | 1999 | 355 | |
| 11 | Stress and Hardship after Prison Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 345 |
| 12 | Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 319 |
| 13 | 2005 | 294 | |
| 14 | 2005 | 261 | |
| 15 | 2012 | 231 | |
| 16 | 2011 | 220 | |
| 17 | 1997 | 205 | |
| 18 | 2010 | 173 | |
| 19 | 1994 | 172 | |
| 20 | 1992 | 166 |
About Bruce Western
Bruce Western is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations and Public Administration, having authored 132 papers that have together received 11.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (45 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (33 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (31 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (20 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (14 papers), Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (13 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (983 citations), General Health Professions (4.1k citations), Sociology and Political Science (7.7k citations), Gender Studies (1.1k citations) and Health (804 citations). Bruce Western has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Becky Pettit, Devah Pager, Katherine Beckett, Christopher Wildeman, Bart Bonikowski, Jake Rosenfeld, Martina Morris, Leonard M. Lopoo, Deirdre Bloome and Catherine Sirois. Their work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Methodology and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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