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} }
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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