Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment?

Western, Bruce; Kleykamp, Meredith; Rosenfeld, Jake

doi:10.1353/sof.2006.0114

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“…Incarcerated veterans were more likely to be of minority ethnicity and to have disadvantageous sociodemographic characteristics as compared to non-incarcerated veterans with less education, fewer sources of public support, and a lower likelihood of being married. These findings are comparable to the findings of past research into the risk factors for incarceration among individuals in the general U.S. population [1,2,5,7,[10][11][12]43]. There were two major findings of interest with regard to the relative risk for incarceration of veterans from different service periods.…”

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confidence: 83%

Mental Health and Other Risk Factors for Jail Incarceration Among Male Veterans

Greenberg

Rosenheck

2009

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Data derived from the 2002 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails and the 2000 National Survey of Veterans show that having mental health problems in addition to such sociodemographic characteristics as being a member of a minority group, not being married, having less education, and being younger are risk factors for incarceration among veterans, as they are for the general population. As in previous studies veterans who served during the Vietnam Era and to an even greater extent, those who served in the early years of the All Volunteer Force were at greater risk of incarceration than veterans from the most recent period of the AVF, after controlling for age and other factors.

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Mental Health and Other Risk Factors for Jail Incarceration Among Male Veterans

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Rosenheck

2009

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“…According to Andrew Barlow (2005) In addition, Western, Kleykamp, andRosenfeld (2006, 2305) documented increasing levels of incarceration since the 1980s. They showed that from 1983 to 1988, just over 7 percent of black males with less than a high school diploma annually entered prison.…”

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What Happens to Potential Discouraged? Masculinity Norms and the Contrasting Institutional and Labor Market Experiences of Less Affluent Black and White Men

Royster¹

2007

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Though less affluent black and white boys and men adhere to similar gendered norms and aspirations and begin with similar labor market potential, they are often sorted into very different and unequal educational and labor market trajectories. Using nationallevel descriptive data and key qualitative studies of institutional processes, this article contrasts less affluent black and white men's educational, labor market, and criminal justice system experiences and elucidates the processes of differentiation that reproduce those unequal patterns. In each institutional arena, less affluent black males pay a disproportionate price for enacting masculinity norms in comparison to white males. White boys and men are also presented with more desirable labor market options (and second-chance opportunities when they need help) that are denied their black male counterparts. This article suggests that only a complex strategy, which requires less affluent black men to resist more constructively while citizen groups hold institutions more publicly accountable, can enhance the labor market trajectories of black men.

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“…Much research has been devoted to understanding how economic conditions might be linked to incarceration beyond their contributions to criminal offending. Under one prominent strand of social control theory, incarceration is the dominant group's way of controlling the poor or "surplus labor" (for a review, see Western et al 2006). Accordingly, many studies on the economic predictors of incarceration have examined the effects of unemployment (and other related measures such as 9 There are many theories and empirical explanations of carceral expansion-from crime rates, public opinion, and sentencing policies to religion, to name only a few (for a review, see Spelman 2009:32).…”

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Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013

Ryo

Peacock

2019

SSRN Journal

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Hundreds of county jails are involved in detaining immigrants facing removal proceedings, a civil process. In exchange, local jails receive per diem payments from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration detention thus presents a striking case of commodification of penal institutions for civil confinement purposes. Yet we know very little about the counties participating in this arrangement and the predictors of their participation over time. Our study offers the first systematic analysis of immigration detention in county jails using new and comprehensive panel data on jails across the United States. First, we find that the number of counties confining immigrant detainees steadily increased between 1983 and 2013, with the largest growth concentrated in small to medium sized, rural, and Republican counties located in the South. Second, our regression analyses point to a number of significant predictors of county participation in immigration detention: (a) worsening labor market conditions, combined with growing excess bed space for the criminal inmate population, (b) an increasing Latino population up to a certain threshold level, and (c) increasing Republican Party strength. These findings have important implications for current debates raging across the United States about the proper role of local communities in detaining immigrants.

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Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment?

Cited by 30 publications

References 63 publications

Mental Health and Other Risk Factors for Jail Incarceration Among Male Veterans

Mental Health and Other Risk Factors for Jail Incarceration Among Male Veterans

What Happens to Potential Discouraged? Masculinity Norms and the Contrasting Institutional and Labor Market Experiences of Less Affluent Black and White Men

Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013

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