The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties [PDF]
, 2007 This report describes the relationship between drug admission rates and the structural and demographic characteristics of counties -- budgets and spending for law enforcement, unemployment rates, poverty rates, and the percentage of the population that ...
Amanda Petteruti +2 more
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Correction to: Social Determination of HIV: Women's Relationship Work in the Context of Mass Incarceration and Housing Vulnerability. [PDF]
AIDS Behav, 2021 Blankenship KM +5 more
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A comprehensive framework for operationalizing structural racism in health research: The association between mass incarceration of Black people in the U.S. and adverse birth outcomes. [PDF]
SSM Popul Health, 2022 Larrabee Sonderlund A +5 more
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The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation [PDF]
, 2007 It is a myth that immigrants increase the amount of crime in the United States. Data from the U.S. census and other sources show that for every ethnic group -- without exception -- incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants. This holds
Rubin G. Rumbaut, Walter A. Ewing
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Social Determination of HIV: Women's Relationship Work in the Context of Mass Incarceration and Housing Vulnerability. [PDF]
AIDS Behav, 2021 Blankenship KM +5 more
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Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market [PDF]
, 2010 We use Bureau of Justice Statistics data to estimate that, in 2008, the United States had between 12 and 14 million ex-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders' prospects in the labor market, we ...
John Schmitt, Kris Warner
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The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social SciencesA “carceral state” represents a critical definitional contrast to the more commonly invoked frames of “mass incarceration” or “mass criminalization.” Mass criminalization scholarship is typically focused on the most proximate causes and consequences of ...
Sara Wakefield, Kristin Turney
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The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer [PDF]
, 2017 Despite its widespread use, research shows that the effect of incarceration as a deterrent to crime is minimal at best, and has been diminishing for several years.
Don Stemen
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Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons [PDF]
, 2016 Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in the United States, subsequent constitutional provisions, legislation, and court rulings all called for the abolition of incarcerating individuals to ...
Sobol, Neil L.
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A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities [PDF]
, 2016 More than 5 million U.S. children have had a parent in jail or prison at some point in their lives. The incarceration of a parent can have as much impact on a child's well-being as abuse or domestic violence. But while states spend heavily on corrections,
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