- Office Address
- Non Resident
- Mailing Address
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
Profile
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology. His research
interests are in the field of social stratification and inequality,
political sociology, and statistical methods. He is the author of
Punishment and Inequality in America, a study of the growth
and social impact of the American penal system. His first book,
Between Class and Market, examined the development and
decline of labor unions in the postwar industrialized democracies.
He is currently studying the social impact of rising income
inequality in the United States. Western taught at Princeton from
1993 to 2007 and received his PhD in sociology from UCLA.
Courses
Fall
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HLE-511
Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I
Spring
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CCJ-202
Sociology of Crime and Punishment
Research
For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Western, Bruce. "Criminal Background Checks and Employment Among
Workers with Criminal Records." Criminology & Public
Policy 7.3 (August 2008): 413-417.
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Western, Bruce, Diedre Bloome, and Christine Percheski. "Inequality
among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005." American
Sociological Review 73.6 (December 2008): 903-920.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Western, Bruce. "Reversing Mass Imprisonment." Boston
Review. July/August 2008.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Western, Bruce. "From Prison to Work: A Proposal for a National
Prisoner Reentry Program." Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, The
Brookings Institution 2008-16, December 2008.
- Reviews
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Western, Bruce. "Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism
Among the Black Poor." Review of Distrust and Defensive
Individualism Among the Black Poor, by Sandra Susan Smith.
Contemporary Sociology, 38.1, January 2009: 71-72.