{"id":1919,"date":"2008-07-27T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:14:37","slug":"some-trends-in-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/27\/some-trends-in-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Trends in Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the U.S. has a higher imprisonment rate than even Russia?\u00a0 And the U.S. imprisonment rate is about six times that of many European countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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(This first figure was made by Kieran Healy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

When and how did this happen?\u00a0 It started in the 1980s with Reagan’s “war on drugs.”\u00a0 The figure below shows the increase in the incarceration rate beginning\u00a0in the 1980s (# of people out of 100,000).<\/p>\n

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So our imprisonment rate\u00a0is the result of imprisoning people who break drug laws, NOT violent\u00a0criminals or even people who commit property crimes.\u00a0 The increase is largely due to\u00a0more aggressive policing of drug law violations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, as you can see in the figure below, the aggressive policing of drug law violations can be found\u00a0disproportionately in black neighborhoods.\u00a0 (White and black people take drugs at a very similar rate, but black neighborhoods are more heavily policing and drugs more common among blacks than white have carried heavier sentences — i.e., crack versus cocaine until recently).\u00a0 This figure shows that the increase in the incarceration rate is mostly an increase in the black incarceration rate.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the amazing Pam Oliver for reminding me that this last graph comes from her work on the incarceration rate\u00a0(found here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the U.S. has a higher imprisonment rate than even Russia?\u00a0 And the U.S. imprisonment rate is about six times that of many European countries.\u00a0 (This first figure was made by Kieran Healy.) When and how did this happen?\u00a0 It started in the 1980s with Reagan’s “war on drugs.”\u00a0 The figure below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,237,253,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-drugs","tag-history","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29618,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/29618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}