Population Growth, Migration, and Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the United States, 1940-1980
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D J Harding (0000-0002-2121-0790, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), David Harding (0000-0001-6007-0914), C Winship (0000-0002-0632-241X, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 32 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci5030032 |
| OpenAlex | W2480016237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 61 |
The proportion of U.S. prison inmates who were black increased dramatically between 1940 and 2000. While about two-thirds of the increase occurred between 1940 and 1970, most recent research analyzes the period after 1970, focusing on explanations such as the war on drugs, law-and-order politics, discrimination, inequality, and racial threat. We analyze the growth in the racial difference in incarceration between 1940 and 1980, focusing on the role of demographic processes, particularly population growth, migration, and urbanization. We implement three analyses to assess the role of these demographic processes: (1) a simple accounting model that decomposes the national trend into population growth, changes in arrests, and changes in sentencing; (2) a model of state variation in incarceration that decomposes the racial difference in incarceration into population change, migration between states with different incarceration rates, and other processes; and (3) race-specific models of within-state variation in incarceration rates using state characteristics coupled with a decomposition of the role of changes in state characteristics
Criminology · Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Imprisonment · Inequality · Political science · Population · Population growth · Prison · Sociology · State (computer science · Urbanization · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues
A Common Destiny
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets
Wage Discrimination
Blacks and Whites
Understanding Crime Statistics
On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations
Punishing the Poor
Race to Incarcerate
Malign Neglect Race, Crime, And Punishment In America
Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime
The Truly Disadvantaged
On the Politics of Imprisonments
Deadly Symbiosis
Frontlash
Population Growth in U. S. Prisons, 1980-1996
The “Silent Majority” in Black and White
Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence
Racial disproportionality in state prison admissions
Unemployment and Racial Differences in Imprisonment
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill
Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition and Imprisonment
Structural Inequality and Homicide
Minority Threat and Police Strength From 1980 to 2000
State Prison Populations and Their Growth, 1971–1991
Racial Threat, Partisan Politics, and Racial Disparities in Prison Admissions
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Serious Adolescent Violent Behavior
Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing
Mass Imprisonment
Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing
The Paradox of Lessening Racial Inequality and Joblessness among Black Youth
The Effect of Changes in Intraracial Income Inequality and Educational Attainment on Changes in Arrest Rates for African Americans and Whites, 1957 to 1990
Still Separate and Unequal? A City-Level Analysis of the Black-White Gap in Homicide Arrests since 1960
The Structural Context of Homicide
Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences
Segregation and Crime
Beyond Anomalies
Political Institutions, Minorities, and Punishment
Racial Threat and Social Control
The African American 'Great Migration' and Beyond
Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Northward Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1880-1950
Segregation, Racial Structure, and Neighborhood Violent Crime
The Politics of Resentment in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Toward a Political Model of Incarceration
Urban Black Violence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |