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The growth of incarceration in the United States: Exploring causes and consequences (2014)

by J Travis, B Western, S Redburn
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Article Examining Jail Isolation: What We Don’t Know Can Be Profoundly Harmful

by Sage Publications, Craig Haney, Joanna Weill, Shirin Bakhshay, Tiffany Lockett
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Ethnicity on Measures of Imprisonment

by Evelyn J. Patterson, Helena E. Dagadu
"... twentieth century would be the color line; yet as we move into the twenty-first century, the United States continues to grapple with issues surrounding the color line. As articulated by Du Bois in his July 1900 speech at the First Pan-African Conference in London, the color-line construct speaks dir ..."
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twentieth century would be the color line; yet as we move into the twenty-first century, the United States continues to grapple with issues surrounding the color line. As articulated by Du Bois in his July 1900 speech at the First Pan-African Conference in London, the color-line construct speaks directly to the question as to how far differences of race, which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of hair, are going to be made, hereafter, the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing in their utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization. (Walters 1917:257–58) The color line, however, has become much more complex than the one dividing blacks and whites that Du Bois spoke about in The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois 1903:8). There exists not merely one line but several lines surrounding the construction of race. A major reason for this growing diversity in the construction of race is the increase in the 587762 SREXXX10.1177/2332649215587762Sociology of Race and EthnicityPatterson and Dagadu research-article2015
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...parity in the amountsof crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to trigger mandatory minimum sentences, possession ofscrack still carries a harsher sentence than possessionsof cocaine in many states (=-=Travis et al. 2014-=-). Another illustration of the social construction ofscrime regards the neutralization or mitigation of ascrime, such as the taking of another life (homicide),sto a justifiable action. The act of homi...

Article Associations Between Long- Term Gang Membership and Informal Social Control Processes, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behavior Among Mexican American Youth

by Comparative Criminology, Alice Cepeda, Jarron M. Saint Onge, Kathryn M. Nowotny, Avelardo Valdez
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...viors. This is particularlyssalient during the past few decades with the process of deindustrialization, the dismantling of social service programs, and expanded use of prison time for lesser crimess(=-=Travis, Western, & Redburn, 2014-=-). The strongest finding in our analysis is that lifetime prevalence of cocaine wassmore than 6 times more likely to be associated with long-term gang membership.sCurrent cocaine use (past month) is a...

KRIMINOLOGISCHES

by Forschungsbericht Nr, Christian Pfeiffer
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...parison and when comparing the 50 U.S. states withseach other? A book recently published in the United States, The Growth of Incarceration in thes26sUnited States – Exploring Causes and Consequences (=-=Travis et al., 2014-=-) provides interestingsinformation in this regard. In an international comparison, the five countries with the lowestsrates of incarceration have long ago abolished the parental right to corporal puni...

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