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Maintaining racial inequality through crime control: mass incarceration and residential segregation
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The use of the prison system to incarcerate has been one of the state's primary control mechanisms since the early 1970s, immediately following many civil rights changes as mentioned in this paper, and a system of mass incarceration has entailed wide and continuous racial disparities which maintain inequality across social institutions, such as the economy and political participation.Abstract:
The use of the prison system to incarcerate has been one of the state’s primary control mechanisms since the early 1970s, immediately following many civil rights changes. A system of mass incarceration has entailed wide and continuous racial disparities which maintain inequality across social institutions, such as the economy and political participation – the institutions in which the civil rights movement sought to secure equality. This analysis examines the association between disparate crime control and racial residential segregation, another major social institution targeted by the civil rights movement. Links to theoretical discussions on racial formation, law and crime control, and residential segregation to advance our understanding of inequalities and the reciprocal relationships between these institutionalized processes are presented.read more
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. By Devah Pager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+248. $25.00.
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Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
TL;DR: Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon as discussed by the authors is a rich and sophisticated resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the experience of forced migrants in general and refugee youth in particular.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Douglas S. Massey , Nancy A. Denton
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The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America
TL;DR: Gilderbloom and Mullins as mentioned in this paper described the history of the University of Louisville/Russell neighborhood's Housing and Neighborhood Development Strategies (HANDS) program, which was based upon cooperation with business, community, government, and university.
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Locked out: felon disenfranchisement and American democracy
TL;DR: Manza and Uggen as discussed by the authors show empirically that former felons do not significantly threaten to corrupt or taint political systems, and that the denial of voting rights does not clearly serve some established purpose of punishment.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
TL;DR: The Rise of the Creative Class as mentioned in this paper describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant, with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing.
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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 New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
TL;DR: The mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control in the UK as much as in the US as mentioned in this paper, despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men.
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Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1980s
Michael Omi,Howard Winant +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors close the Pandora's box and discuss race and the ''New Democrats'' in the context of the 2008 United States presidential election, and discuss the great transformation of the United States.