Sadé Lindsay, 2019 Dissertation Scholarship Award Honorable Mention

Title: “Prison Credentials, Race, and Post-Incarceration Employment: A Mixed Methods Study”

Bio

Sadé Lindsay is a sociology PhD candidate at the Ohio State University and a 2018 Ruth D. Peterson fellow of the American Society of Criminology. She received her B.A. in Criminology in 2015 and M.A. in Sociology in 2017 at the Ohio State University. Her research interests broadly include stratification and inequality, incarceration and reentry, substance use, and mass violence.

Dissertation Summary

Sadé’s dissertation addresses the question: can the human capital obtained from prison work programming overcome the stigma of incarceration in the labor market and does this differ by race? She conducts an audit of employers in five geographically diverse states and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with both formerly incarcerated men and hiring managers to understand why prison job training participation is effective or ineffective in obtaining post-incarceration employment.

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