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Contributing Factors to Mass Incarceration and Recidivism [PDF]

, 2018
The United States has been historically known for having the most incarcerated individuals in its country. Approximately 2.3 million adults can be found under some type of penal control.
Esparza Flores, Nayely
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Human Cattle: Prison Overpopulation and the Political Economy of Mass Incarceration [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the costs and impacts of prison overpopulation and mass incarceration on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole.
Hanna, Peter
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Factors that Influence Mass Incarceration among African-Americans [PDF]

, 2015
poster abstractMass incarceration refers to the high rate of imprisonment among a certain racial group. The problem of mass incarceration is common among African-Americans.
Egunyomi, Ayobami, Waterhouse, Carlton
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A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Alternative Models of Incarceration

Laws
While much of the American justice system utilizes punitive models of sentencing and incarceration, restorative justice (RJ) approaches provide a holistic alternative to wrongdoing, viewing offenses in terms of relationships and paying particular ...
Anamalia Suʻesuʻe, Dylan Pilger, Lorinda Riley   +2 more
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“Using the Language of Christian Love and Charity”: What Liberal Religion Offers Higher Education in Prison

Religions, 2019
This article explores what religious frameworks and institutions have to contribute to college-in-prison. We first provide an historical overview of higher education programs in American prisons.
Charles Atkins, Joshua Dubler, Vincent Lloyd, Mel Webb   +3 more
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Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration [PDF]

, 2017
In the United States, violence and mass incarceration are deeply entwined, though evidence shows that both can decrease at the same time. A new vision is needed to meaningfully address violence and reduce the use of incarceration—and to promote healing ...
Danielle Sered
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Dual Punishment

Columbia Social Work Review, 2019
Children with incarcerated parents are among the most at-risk populations in the United States. The recent trend toward mass incarceration in the United States, especially of women, has harmful implications for children because often their primary ...
Julie Smyth
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History Matters

American Studies in Scandinavia, 2018
This essay surveys the degree to which racism has been a dominant theme – indeed, often the single most important theme – of all American history. It shaped the Constitution, dominated Congressional and judicial controversies during the first six decades
William H. Chafe
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O encarceramento em massa de mulheres enquanto tecnologia do sistema colonial-racial

Confluenze, 2020
This essay addresses the penal system as a technology of the colonial-racial model of relations of power, which exerts a differential distribution of precariousness that dehumanizes entire sections of the population.
Ygor Santos de Santana, Emilly Silva dos Santos   +1 more
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Mass Incarceration, Parental Imprisonment, and the Great Recession: Intergenerational Sources of Severe Deprivation in America

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2015
What were the socioeconomic consequences for American youth of having a parent incarcerated during the 2008 Great Recession? We analyze a nationally representative panel study of adolescents who, when interviewed during this recession, were transitioning
John Hagan, Holly Foster
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