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Mass IncarcerationMass Incarceration
Glenn C. Loury
Brown UniversityBrown University
March 2010
Presentation based on data provided by Bruce Western of Harvard University
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Mass Imprisonment
David Garland (2001, 1) defines mass imprisonment:
. . . a rate of imprisonment. . . that is markedly above thehistorical and comparative norm for societies of thistype. . .
[imprisonment] ceases to be the incarceration ofindividual offenders and becomes the systematicimprisonment of whole groups of the population.
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Mass Imprisonment
David Garland (2001, 1) defines mass imprisonment:
. . . a rate of imprisonment. . . that is markedly above thehistorical and comparative norm for societies of thistype. . .
[imprisonment] ceases to be the incarceration ofindividual offenders and becomes the systematicimprisonment of whole groups of the population.
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* 1.5m in prison
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* 780,000 in jail
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* 780,000 in jail
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* 780,000 in jail
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* 4.2m on probation
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Imprisonment and the Life Course
White and black men, born 1975–1979 experiencing a life event by2009 (percent).
Whites Blacks
Marriage 68% 47%
Bachelor’s Degree 34 17
Military Service 10 9
Imprisonment 5 27
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Imprisonment and the Life Course
White and black men, born 1975–1979 experiencing a life event by2009 (percent).
Whites Blacks
Marriage 68% 47%
Bachelor’s Degree 34 17
Military Service 10 9
Imprisonment 5 27
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What Are the Implications for Inequality?
Inequality created by incarceration is:
I Invisible
I Cumulative
I Intergenerational
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What Are the Implications for Inequality?
Inequality created by incarceration is:
I Invisible
I Cumulative
I Intergenerational
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What Are the Implications for Inequality?
Inequality created by incarceration is:
I Invisible
I Cumulative
I Intergenerational
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What Are the Implications for Inequality?
Inequality created by incarceration is:
I Invisible
I Cumulative
I Intergenerational
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Invisible Inequality
I Inequality created by incarceration is invisible, becauseincarceration is concentrated and segregative, hidden frommainstream society
I Important for sociology: Incarceration is often overlooked insocial accounting, and inequality is underestimated
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Invisible Inequality
I Inequality created by incarceration is invisible, becauseincarceration is concentrated and segregative, hidden frommainstream society
I Important for sociology: Incarceration is often overlooked insocial accounting, and inequality is underestimated
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Cumulative Inequality
I Inequality created by incarceration diminishes the economicstatus of those whose employment and wage rates are alreadyvery low
I Panel data estimates show that incarceration reduces earningsby about 40%
I Experimental evidence indicates employment is reduced by athird to a half.
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Cumulative Inequality
I Inequality created by incarceration diminishes the economicstatus of those whose employment and wage rates are alreadyvery low
I Panel data estimates show that incarceration reduces earningsby about 40%
I Experimental evidence indicates employment is reduced by athird to a half.
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Cumulative Inequality
I Inequality created by incarceration diminishes the economicstatus of those whose employment and wage rates are alreadyvery low
I Panel data estimates show that incarceration reduces earningsby about 40%
I Experimental evidence indicates employment is reduced by athird to a half.
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Intergenerational Inequality
I Large prison populations means large numbers of childrenwith parents in prison
I Stigma of incarceration for children, new research showingbehavioral problems, particularly for boys
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Intergenerational Inequality
I Large prison populations means large numbers of childrenwith parents in prison
I Stigma of incarceration for children, new research showingbehavioral problems, particularly for boys
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* 11% of black children have a parent incarcerated
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* 11% of black children have a parent incarcerated
* 24% of black children, 1990, will have their father imprisoned by age 14
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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Next Steps
I State budgets are overburdened by correctional spending ⇒political will for retrenching mass imprisonment
I What is the problem? High imprisonment rates? No
I Chronic idleness, addiction, and mental health problems ofmen with little schooling
I Criminal justice reforms by themselves will be insufficient andwill fail
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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A National Prisoner Reentry Plan
I Transitional jobs for all parolees needing work (200,000 a year)
I More drug treatment, housing, and education
I No more re-imprisonment for technical parole violators
I Supervision shifts from prison to the community, and replacescriminal justice oversight with social policy
I $8.5 billion cost, $10 billion benefit in reduced crime andcorrectional costs
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Mass Incarceration Redux
I When incareration rates are high and concentrated. . .
I And incarceration has large and enduring effects on inequality(invisible, cumulative, and intergenerational)...
I Mass incarceration has produced a new social group separatedfrom full membership in society
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Mass Incarceration Redux
I When incareration rates are high and concentrated. . .
I And incarceration has large and enduring effects on inequality(invisible, cumulative, and intergenerational)...
I Mass incarceration has produced a new social group separatedfrom full membership in society
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Mass Incarceration Redux
I When incareration rates are high and concentrated. . .
I And incarceration has large and enduring effects on inequality(invisible, cumulative, and intergenerational)...
I Mass incarceration has produced a new social group separatedfrom full membership in society
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Here’s a ‘narrative defining question for you:
Should we think about racial disparity of punishment in America as an accidental accretion of neutral state action applied to a racially divergent social flux – the chips having fallen as they may, so to speak?
Or is this powerfully salient feature of
contemporary American social life better understood as the residual effect of our uniquely American history of enslavement, violent domination, disenfranchisement and racial discrimination?
That is, ought we to think of massive
racial inequality in the incidence of punishment in America as a necessary evil, given our need for order maintenance? Or, should we view it an abhorrent expression of who we Americans have become as a people at the dawn of the 21st century?