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Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh
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To explain the astounding overrepresentation of blacks behind bars that has driven mass imprisonment in the United States, one must break out of the ''crime-and-punishment'' paradigm to reckon the e...Abstract:
To explain the astounding over-representation of blacks behind bars that has driven mass imprisonment in the United States, one must break out of the `crime-and-punishment' paradigm to reckon the e...read more
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The Mark of a Criminal Record
TL;DR: The findings of this study reveal an important, and much underrecognized, mechanism of stratification in the criminal justice system, which presents a major barrier to employment, with important implications for racial disparities.
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Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration:
Becky Pettit,Bruce Western +1 more
TL;DR: This paper study penal inequality by estimating lifetime risks of imprisonment for black and white men at different levels of education and find that the risks of incarceration are highly stratified by education, with 30 percent of those without college education and nearly 60 percent of high school dropouts going to prison by 1999.
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Incarceration and Stratification
Sara Wakefield,Christopher Uggen +1 more
TL;DR: In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities as discussed by the authors, and a new wave of sociological research details the contemporary experiment with mass incarceration in the United States and its attendant effects on social stratification.
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Preparing for prison?: The criminalization of school discipline in the USA
TL;DR: The authors argue that American schools increasingly define and manage the problem of student discipline through a prism of crime control, and most theoretical explanations fail to situate school criminalization in a broader...
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Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishment: Rethinking Disciplinary Practices
TL;DR: In this article, an examination of which students are most likely to be suspended, expelled, or removed from the classroom for punishment, reveals that minorities (especially Blacks and Latinos), males, and low achievers are vastly overrepresented.
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The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy
TL;DR: Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" as mentioned in this paper was one of the sixteen best books of 1987 and won the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that racial segregation is crucial to explaining the emergence of the urban underclass during the 1970s and that a strong interaction between rising rates of poverty and high levels of residential segregation explains where, why and in which groups the underclass arose.
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The Political Economy of Federalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a theoretical framework and an econometric methodology for analyzing the increasingly important effects of the national government on the federal system, which is a synthesis of the dominant political and economic approaches to this issue.
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
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The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit : with a new preface by the author
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the deindustrialization of the city of Detroit in the 1940s and 1970s, and discuss the role of race and housing in this process.