2021
DOI: 10.1177/14624745211006039
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The downside of downsizing: Persistence of racial disparities following state prison reform

Abstract: Nationwide, prison populations have declined nearly 5% from their peak, and 16 states have seen double-digit declines. It is unclear, though, how decarceration has affected racial disparities. Using national data, we find substantial variation in state prison populations from 2005–2018, with increases in some states and declines in others. However, although declines in the overall state prison population were associated with declines for all groups, states with rising prison populations experienced slight upti… Show more

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“…This work has focused in particular on the political dimensions of penal legal reform and policy-making, and the compromises and shortcomings in those processes (e.g., Aviram, 2015;Beckett et al, 2016Beckett et al, , 2018Campbell et al, 2020;Cate, 2016;Gottschalk, 2016;Seeds, 2017;Whitlock and Heitzeg, 2021). A nascent line of research has also explored how reforms play out on the ground (Lerman and Mooney, 2022;Martin, 2016;Verma, 2015), including some of the downsides of reform for those subject to punishment (Cate, 2022) and the illusory impact of reform on the use of imprisonment (Beckett et al, 2018;Beckett and Beach, 2021). Prosecutors, as political actors, have figured into this narrative, as they have largely lobbied to retain discretionary power (Degenshein, 2023), or otherwise thwart reform efforts (Hopwood, 2020;Lynch, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This work has focused in particular on the political dimensions of penal legal reform and policy-making, and the compromises and shortcomings in those processes (e.g., Aviram, 2015;Beckett et al, 2016Beckett et al, , 2018Campbell et al, 2020;Cate, 2016;Gottschalk, 2016;Seeds, 2017;Whitlock and Heitzeg, 2021). A nascent line of research has also explored how reforms play out on the ground (Lerman and Mooney, 2022;Martin, 2016;Verma, 2015), including some of the downsides of reform for those subject to punishment (Cate, 2022) and the illusory impact of reform on the use of imprisonment (Beckett et al, 2018;Beckett and Beach, 2021). Prosecutors, as political actors, have figured into this narrative, as they have largely lobbied to retain discretionary power (Degenshein, 2023), or otherwise thwart reform efforts (Hopwood, 2020;Lynch, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The pattern continues for every age category, with the highest overall rates being in the age category of 35-36. The rate (per 100,000) in this age group of White men is 958, while the rate for Black men in the age category is 4832, which is over 5-fold greater than for White men [67]. Using somewhat different sources of data and only looking at state prisons but finding a similar pattern, Lerman and Mooney [68] found substantial variation in populations over thirteen years:…”
Section: Sources Of Biased Criminal Historiesmentioning
confidence: 99%