Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Luke Petach; A. Pena

DOI:10.1177/0034644620966029

Corpus ID: 211543810

Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration

@article{Petach2020LocalLM,
  title={Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration},
  author={Luke Petach and A. Pena},
  journal={Review of Black Political Economy},
  year={2020},
  volume={48},
  pages={7 - 41}
}

Luke Petach, A. Pena

Published 2020

Economics

Review of Black Political Economy

We contend that the rise of mass incarceration in the United States can be framed through the lens of stratification economics, which views race- and class-based discrimination as a rational attempt on behalf of privileged groups to preserve their relative status and the material benefits which that status confers. Using the first (to our knowledge) local-level data set on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and incarceration at the… CONTINUE READING

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