What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Law
- Statistics
- Social science
His scientific interests lie mostly in Prison, Criminology, Labour economics, Imprisonment and Wage.
His Prison research incorporates elements of Demographic economics, Social inequality, Life course approach, Poverty and Economic inequality.
He is studying Mass incarceration, which is a component of Criminology.
The Labour economics study combines topics in areas such as Power, Unemployment and Market economy.
Bruce Western interconnects Social policy, National Longitudinal Surveys and Demography in the investigation of issues within Imprisonment.
His research investigates the link between Wage and topics such as Earnings growth that cross with problems in Polarization, Economic growth, Salary and Economic restructuring.
His most cited work include:
- Punishment and inequality in America (1002 citations)
- Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration: (961 citations)
- Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment (545 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Bruce Western focuses on Criminology, Labour economics, Prison, Demographic economics and Poverty.
The Criminology study which covers Life course approach that intersects with Social inequality.
As part of his studies on Labour economics, Bruce Western often connects relevant areas like Private sector.
His study looks at the relationship between Prison and fields such as Imprisonment, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
His studies deal with areas such as Economic inequality and Unemployment as well as Demographic economics.
His work in Poverty addresses subjects such as Development economics, which are connected to disciplines such as Politics.
He most often published in these fields:
- Criminology (26.36%)
- Labour economics (20.93%)
- Prison (20.16%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?
- Poverty (15.50%)
- Criminology (26.36%)
- Demographic economics (20.16%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Bruce Western mainly investigates Poverty, Criminology, Demographic economics, Criminal justice and Prison.
Bruce Western has included themes like Disadvantaged, Disadvantage, Development economics, Labour economics and Economic Justice in his Poverty study.
His work deals with themes such as Everyday life and Social control, which intersect with Criminology.
His work in Social control covers topics such as Life course approach which are related to areas like Punishment.
His Demographic economics study deals with Unemployment intersecting with Gerontology and Safety net.
In Prison, Bruce Western works on issues like Social integration, which are connected to Mental illness, Social support, Recidivism, Mass incarceration and Racism.
Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Stress and Hardship after Prison. (178 citations)
- Study retention as bias reduction in a hard-to-reach population. (34 citations)
- Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (29 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Law
- Statistics
- Social science
His primary scientific interests are in Poverty, Prison, Unemployment, Demographic economics and Labour economics.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Disadvantage, Public policy, Economic Justice, Empirical research and Normative in addition to Poverty.
Criminal justice, Racism, Social support, Criminology and Mass incarceration is closely connected to Social integration in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Prison.
His Unemployment research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Feeling, Addiction, Gerontology and Mental illness.
Bruce Western integrates Demographic economics with Net national income in his study.
His work on Survey of Income and Program Participation is typically connected to Re entry, Income in kind and Total personal income as part of general Labour economics study, connecting several disciplines of science.
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