Why Mass Incarceration Matters
Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H A Thompson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 703-734 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/97.3.703 |
| OpenAlex | W2070823389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
As the twentieth century came to a close and the twenty-first began, something occurred in the United States that was without international parallel or historical precedent. Between 1970 and 2010 more people were incarcerated in the United States than were imprisoned in any other country, and at no other point in its past had the nation's economic, social, and political institutions become so bound up with the practice of punishment. By 2006 more than 7.3 million Americans had become entangled in the criminal justice system. The American prison population had by that year increased more rapidly than had the resident population as a whole, and one in every thirty-one U.S. residents was under some form of correctional supervision, such as in prison or jail, or on probation or parole. As importantly, the incarcerated and supervised population of the United States was, overwhelmingly, a population of color. African American men experienced the highest imprisonment rate of all racial groups, male or female. It was 6.5 times the rate of white males and 2.5 times that of Hispanic males. By the middle of 2006 one in fifteen black men over the age of eighteen were behind bars as were one in nine black men aged twenty to thirty-four. The imprisonment rate of African American women looked little better. It was almost double that of Hispanic women and three times the rate of white women.1
Criminal justice · Criminology · Imprisonment · Mass incarceration · Political science · Politics · Population · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · White (mutation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry
Dehumanizing the Poor (of Color)
Where Are the Daddies? The Rise of the Post-Industrial Carceral State
The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans
How the Rockefeller Laws Hit the Streets
Dare to Say No
Cops at War
Colorado Honor Convicts
Did Mass Incarceration Leave Americans Feeling Less Afraid? A Multilevel Analysis of Cumulative Imprisonment and Individual Perceptions of Fear
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Evaluating policy reforms over time
Decarceration and…? Local Policy Responses to State-Level Criminal Justice Reform
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood
Assembling “The Camp”
Mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline
Responding to the Trauma That Is Endemic to the Criminal Legal System
Detroit Fifty Years After the Kerner Report
Locked into Emissions
Carceral geographies and disparities in the proximity to environmental hazards in Washington D.C. Maryland, and Virginia
Carandiru
Are we imprisoned in narratives of progress? The work of Hanes Walton and its lessons for an Afrofuturistic black politics
The foresight of Frontlash
Harshest in the Nation
Kicked to the Curb
Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and mass incarceration
Rallying for repression
Racial Innocence
The Origins of Mass Incarceration
Between the Market and the State
The Work
Urban Upheaval and the Enduring Appeal of Law and Order
Getting Tough or Rolling Back the State? Why Neoliberals Disagreed on a Guaranteed Minimum Income
A protracted war for order
Borders and badges
Theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness
Fracturing the penal state
The Parallels between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation
The Carceral State and the Crucible of Black Politics
I Don’t Believe in a Fun City; I Believe in a Safe City”
The Armed Career Criminal Act and the Puzzle of Federal Crime Control in the Reagan Era
Criminal Justice Through “Colorblind” Lenses
From the Vagrancy Law Regime to the Carceral State
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization
The Political Ecology of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Feeling the pulse of the city
To Protect and to Serve
The Many Histories of Juvenile Justice
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
Neither Licit nor Illicit
Reckoning With the Rise of the Carceral State
Trash Transformations
Clio and the Compound Republic
Incarcération de masse et démobilisation politique chez les Afro-Américains
I Said Maybe We Should Use a Condom, and Then that Just Went South”
Schools and Delinquency in the Early 20th Century
Persistence and Desistance Narratives
Writing a Global History of Convict Labour
The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory–carceral state
The politics of care
Progress or More of the Same? Electronic Monitoring and Parole in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Reclaiming the Power to Punish
Angela's psych squad
I Want to Know How to Protect Myself without Scaring Our Patients
Criminalizing Poverty
Demolition as urban policy in the American Rust Belt
The Hired Enemies of This Population
Occupied Territory
She Ain't No Rosa Parks
Da guerra à pobreza à guerra ao crime
The Racial History of Criminal Justice in America
Making Windows in Walls
Mass Incarceration
Making Immigrants Illegal in Small-Town USA
Build the Wall
The Disciplining Effect of Mass Incarceration on Labor Organization
Expanding Carceral Markets
Normativity is not a replacement for theory
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |