Policies and Imprisonment: The Impact of Structured Sentencing and Determinate Sentencing on State Incarceration Rates, 1978–2004

Stemen, Don; Rengifo, Andrés F.

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“…Several studies have effectively identified the presence/absence of narrowly-defined policies such as presumptive sentencing guidelines, three-strikes laws, or determinate sentencing statutes (see Sabol et al 2002;Pfaff 2005;Stemen and Rengifo 2011). However, there is weaker consensus over how to measure more complex policies that include multiple substantive components, such as mandatory sentencing policies.…”

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Race and Women’s Imprisonment: Poverty, African American Presence, and Social Welfare

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Female imprisonment rates have increased proportionately more than male imprisonment rates over recent decades. There are substantial race differences in women's rates, as is the case for men. Yet, there has been little quantitative research on the correlates of women's imprisonment using data over time, or on potential race differences in those correlates. The present research analyzes data on black and nonblack female imprisonment rates in the 50 states for the period 1981-2003. The analyses are guided substantively by existing research on race, social threat and criminal punishment, and theory and research on the penal-welfare hypothesis. The study uses bivariate-response multilevel modeling to simultaneously examine the factors associated with black and nonblack women's imprisonment rates. The results show that black female imprisonment rates increase when the concentration of African Americans in metropolitan areas and poverty rates grow, whereas nonblack female imprisonment rates are unaffected by poverty rates and actually decrease when African American populations become more concentrated in metro areas. Both black An earlier version of this paper was presented at the and nonblack women's imprisonment rates increase when welfare spending declines. The results are consistent with social threat perspectives and the penal-welfare hypotheses.

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“…However, since the mid-1970s, the inmate population has increased remarkably (Cahalan, 1986;Guerino, Harrison, & Sabol, 2012;Stemen & Rengifo, 2011;Zimring, 2010). Often referred to as "mass imprisonment," the current trend in incarceration is characterized by the exponential increase in the use of imprisonment and the focus on groups, rather than individuals, as the subject of incarceration, particularly young Black men (Garland, 2001).…”

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Explaining Dimensions of State-Level Punitiveness in the United States

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Criminal Justice Policy Review

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The United States currently imprisons more citizens than any other Western nation. Over the last few decades, the trend across the United States has been to increase penalties for many offenses. This increase in state punitiveness has likely contributed to the existing state of mass incarceration. If there are certain factors that enhance a state's penchant for punitiveness, identifying these factors can offer a better understanding of mass incarceration and why certain policy choices are made. Drawing from theories of social control and racial threat, we test social and economic explanations for variations in state punitiveness across several dimensions. We find the effect of the independent variables is not uniform across the dimensions, suggesting there is a difference in how criminal justice policy decisions are made depending on the policy area in question. This finding begs for further investigation into the issue of state punitiveness.The United States's incarceration rate has grown exponentially over the last few decades. In the 1960s and early 1970s, declines in prison populations, the dominance

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“…Alexander explains how in 1982 the Reagan administrations' War on Drugs public policies had a devastating impact on African American families and communities. In less than 30 years, the U.S. prison population rose from approximately 300,000 to more than two million, with the majority of drug convictions accounting for the increase (Stemen & Rengifo, 2011). The United States imprisons a larger percentage (5 times greater) of its African American population (particularly males) than did South Africa did at the peak of apartheid (Alexander, 2010;Beckett, 1999).…”

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African Americans' Perceived Sociocultural Determinants of Suicide: Afrocentric Implications for Public Health Inequalities

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2014

Social Work in Public Health

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The cultural values of African Americans have not been adequately incorporated as a theoretical base to develop new public health models. The major objectives of this study were to explore, with a purposive sample, via seven focus groups, 40 African American college students, the following: How do (a) ethnic culture and (b) a "minoritized" status influence perceptions of sociocultural determinants in explaining increases in the incidence of suicide among African Americans? Thematic results of focus group discussions including the following: (a) racism, discrimination, and stereotyping; (b) U.S. individualism; (c) integration and cultural assimilation; and, (d) the prison industrial complex.

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Policies and Imprisonment: The Impact of Structured Sentencing and Determinate Sentencing on State Incarceration Rates, 1978–2004

Cited by 46 publications

References 40 publications

Race and Women’s Imprisonment: Poverty, African American Presence, and Social Welfare

Race and Women’s Imprisonment: Poverty, African American Presence, and Social Welfare

Explaining Dimensions of State-Level Punitiveness in the United States

African Americans' Perceived Sociocultural Determinants of Suicide: Afrocentric Implications for Public Health Inequalities

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