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Mass Incarceration

2020
Abstract The chapter begins with an overview of the growth of the prison population from the end of the civil war to the Obama administration. The authors describe all of the structural inequalities African Americans faced that stymied their growth economically and socially as a people, and subsequently led to the mass incarceration of ...
Michael A. Robinson   +2 more
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Mass Incarceration

2017
The United States has a dual justice system; the FTE sector pays fines, and the low-wage sector goes to jail. One out of three black males spends time in prison in a new Jim Crow system. Poor white men are far less likely to be imprisoned, but they still are a majority of prisoners. This dual system is administered by all levels of government, from the
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Mass Incarceration, Macrosociology, and the Poor

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2013
The U.S. prison and jail population has grown fivefold in the 40 years since the early 1970s. The aggregate consequences of the growth in the penal system are widely claimed but have not been closely studied. We survey evidence for the aggregate relationship among the incarceration rate, employment rates, single-parenthood, public opinion, and crime ...
Western, Bruce, Muller, Christopher
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From Mass Incarceration to Invisible Incarceration

2021
The United States has the highest number of incarcerated people worldwide with a prison population of 2.2 million in 2016 (Gramlich 2018). Mass incarceration is the historically unprecedented number of people incarcerated, and the fact that this population is disproportionately made up of Black and Brown men.
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