Family Matters? Voting Behavior in Households with Criminal Justice Contact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3206743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel White (0000-0002-9409-6765, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 607-613 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055418000862 |
| OpenAlex | W2907800951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 19 |
Contact with the criminal legal system has been shown to reduce individuals' political participation, but its effect on friends and family members is less clear. Do people who see loved ones arrested or incarcerated become mobilized to change the system, or do they withdraw from political life? I address this question using administrative data from one large county, identifying registered voters who live with someone facing misdemeanor charges. Court records and vote histories allow me to accurately measure proximate criminal justice exposure and voting for a broader sample of people than survey data would. Using case timing for arrests shortly before and shortly after the election allows me to avoid bias from omitted variables. I find evidence of a short-term demobilization effect for people who see household members convicted or jailed in the weeks before the election, but no evidence of a lasting turnout effect from these experiences
Criminal justice · Criminology · Demobilization · Economic Justice · Misdemeanor · Political science · Politics · Sample (material · Turnout · Voting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 48 |
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| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |