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uses the tremendous racial disparities in the American crime control system to assess race and racism as key features of … backlash politics, also represents a likely turning point in the war on crime. The Essay then reconsiders mass imprisonment …
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We study the implications of incarceration for the earnings and employment of different groups, characterized by their race, gender, and education. Our hidden Markov model distinguishes between first-time and repeat incarceration, along with other persistent and transitory nonemployment and...
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We replicate and reexamine Saperstein and Penner's prominent 2010 study which asks whether incarceration changes the probability that an individual will be seen as black or white (regardless of the individual's phenotype). Our reexamination shows that only a small part of their empirical...
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two signature state incarceration policies adopted during the "tough on crime" era of the 1990s--three strikes and truth …, namely gradually reductions in community incarceration and crime rates. Altogether, these findings point to the need to …
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equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …
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