Comments on: Some Trends in Imprisonment

By: Race, Criminal Background, and Employment » Sociological Images

Race, Criminal Background, and Employment » Sociological Images — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:53:53 +0000

[...] see our posts on America’s high imprisonment rate (here and here), the percentage of children with a parent in prison, by race, black/white disparities in prison [...]

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:55:52 +0000

Loic Wacquant (sociologist at berkeley) has actually written about this subject.. his book is called punishing the poor and analyses exactly these kinds of data. If I understood him correctly, he is making the case that the imprisonment is increasingly replacing social benefits/security as a way to keep the poor in check. I’d check it out, it’s good and illuminating stuff.

By: Just Say No. « Prioritizing the Paranoias

Just Say No. « Prioritizing the Paranoias — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:43:35 +0000

[...] a month ago, a post on trends in imprisonment from (where else) Sociological Images picked up on some of the thoughts I’ve had about the [...]

By: Sociological Images » BLACK/WHITE DISPARITIES IN PRISON SENTENCES

Sociological Images » BLACK/WHITE DISPARITIES IN PRISON SENTENCES — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:33:54 +0000

[...] on this topic (including disparities broken down by state) at Pam Oliver’s website. Also see this post about international imprisonment rates. Thanks, [...]

By: OP Minded

OP Minded — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:22 +0000

… and total violent crime rates have plummeted during that time as well.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/cv2.htm

By: Pamela Oliver

Pamela Oliver — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:04:16 +0000

Hi Lisa, that last graph looks like one of mine (and older version), and you appear to have forgotten to put the source up. The source is calculations by Pamela Oliver from two data sets, the NPS and the NCRP. –Pam

By: Umlud

Umlud — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:55:23 +0000

This also has major impacts outside neighborhood arrest rates. Over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton recently wrote two stories (links below) about how the War on Drugs is having deleterious consequences not originally intended, the first on deer hunting (and by extension, one could argue, on hemp production) and the second on medical marijuana provision to minors.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/were_the_government_we_can_be.php

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/more_drug_law_insanity.php