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Title: Punishment and Inequality in America
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Western, Bruce |
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Punishment and Inequality in America Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60,4 (2007): Article 87. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/25249115 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Keyword(s): Crime; Incarceration/Jail; Minorities; Minorities, Youth; Minority Groups; Punishment, Criminal; Racial Equality/Inequality If you are a black unemployed high school dropout, are convicted of a crime, and spend a few months in jail, you will have a high probability of remaining unemployed, untrained, and undereducated and of returning to jail more than once over your lifetime. As a result of various punitive laws enacted over the past two generations, declining support for rehabilitation efforts, and the advent of technologies making it easier to track individuals, prison has become a way of life for many in the United States. It is too often a revolving door of crime, prison, release, lack of employment, crime, and return to prison. But (a) does incarceration cause unemployment, or does unemployment cause criminal behavior and subsequent imprisonment? And (b) what are the economic costs and benefits of increased U.S. imprisonment? |
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Western, Bruce. "Punishment and Inequality in America." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60,4 (2007): Article 87.
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