Mass incarceration issue
[PDF File] Mass incarceration as a form of racialized social control
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The Birth of Mass Incarceration The rhetoric of “law and order” was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors ... ing crime issue. As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced them-selves from an explicitly racist agenda. They developed instead the racially sanitized rheto-
[PDF File] Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass …
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CARCERAL REDLINING AS FUEL FOR MASS INCARCERATION There has been a plethora of literature documenting mass incarceration in the United States (Roberts, 2004; Alexander, 2012; Abu-Jamal & Johanna Fernández, 2014; Sawyer & Wagner, 2019). Yet, lesser known is the impact of mass incarceration on Black and Indigenous populations …
Mass Incarceration: Causes, Consequences, and Exit …
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Symposium issue, the choice was an easy one, as I could think of no more urgent issue relating to American criminal justice. In addressing the phenomenon of what ... mass incarceration,20 one that starts with the assumption that "crime is a genuine
[PDF File] MASS INCARCERATION: SEIZING THE MOMENT FOR …
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The Obama administration has made criminal justice reform and the problem of mass incarceration a top policy issue since at least 2013, when thenAttorney General Eric Holder - announced initiatives for a “smarter” approach to crime and incarceration.
[PDF File] Ending Mass Incarceration - Brennan Center for Justice
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Mass incarceration has crushing consequences: racial, social, and economic. We spend around $270 billion per year on our crimi-nal justice system. In California it costs more than $75,000 per year to house each prisoner — more than it would cost to send them to Harvard.4 Mass incarceration exacerbates poverty and inequal-
[PDF File] DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION, ADDICTION, AND MASS …
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efforts to ameliorate this country's intertwined mass incarceration and opioid epidemics will require more than just drug decriminalization. The system needs both innovation and large-scale transformation, recognizing that when addiction is the root cause of criminality, the purposes of punishment often do not support incarceration. II.
[PDF File] The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration - Vera Institute
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the United States cannot unwind mass incarceration if reformers remain fixated on state-level trends and solutions. The numbers show that ending mass incarceration requires reform everywhere: in states and in counties, in prisons and in jails. But the legacy of mass incarceration is not one of only datasets and policy. The damage wrought by its
[PDF File] Overcrowding and Overuse of Imprisonment in the United …
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as mass incarceration. 2 Mass incarceration in the United States raises serious constitutional and human rights concerns. ... which forces judges to issue severe sentences regardless of individual factors meriting leniency, and three-strikes laws, which expand the number of crimes subject to life and life-without-parole sentences. ...
[PDF File] Applying the Theory of Social Good to Mass Incarceration …
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bolstered mass incarceration in the United States and further marginalized historically oppressed groups, specifically African ... substantial social injustice and the role that social work must play in addressing this issue. Keywords social good, mass incarceration, African Americans, discrimination, diversity, inclusion, civil rights, social ...
[PDF File] The Mass Incarceration Continuum: The Human Rights Issue …
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The Mass Incarceration Continuum is A Human Rights Issue Despite fluctuations in crime policies, in general, overall crime rates have dropped, yet, incarceration rates in the United States have continued at exponentially high levels since the 1970’s (Phelps, 2011). The United States is the international leader of mass incarceration. The
[PDF File] From mass incarceration to smart decarceration - Grand …
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incomparable disadvantage (Wakefield & Wildeman, 2011). As a result, mass incarceration creates a system of oppression for some of society’s most vulnerable people. Effectively reversing mass incarceration and its pervasive effects is perhaps the most pressing social justice issue in the United States today.
The Mass Incarceration of Parents in America: Issues of …
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40375895
mass incarceration is disproportionately concentrated among disadvantaged groups (Pettit and Western 2004), collateral intergenerational consequences and ... onstrate that this is an issue of society- wide rather than race-specific significance for Americans. Our findings raise important questions for further research.
Mental Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Psychiatric …
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/appi.ps.73104
Arrest, incarceration, and other forms of criminal legal involvement can shape people ’slivesinprofoundways.In this issue, Rotter and Compton (1) call attention to the often overlooked ties between criminalization and mental health, pointing to effects far beyond incarceration. The authors explore the cyclical ways in which social determinants of
Mass Incarceration: Slavery Renamed - San Jose State …
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through mass incarceration. Mass incarceration has resulted in terrible conditions for prisoners, both physically and mentally. Many would assume the conditions produced by mass incarceration are in violation of the 8. th. Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment, but they are not. In . Ruffin v. Commonwealth (1871),
[PDF File] Poverty and Mass Incarceration in New York - Brennan …
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economic harms of mass incarceration borne by too many New Yorkers and reduce the resulting inequalities. Specific policy recommendations are summarized below and described in depth in Section III. Policymakers should: Decrease the Number of People Entering New York’s Criminal Justice System Legalize and regulate marijuana. …
[PDF File] Editor’s Introduction—Beyond Mass Incarceration: Crisis and …
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mass incarceration has become one of the most pressing social problems facing the United States today (Travis, Western and Redburn 2014). ... in this special issue of Social Justice tackle different yet interconnected aspects of the carceral field across North America—with a specific focus on the United
[PDF File] Ending Mass Incarceration - Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/Report_EndingMassIncarceration_2.pdf
Mass incarceration has crushing consequences: racial, social, and economic. We spend around $270 billion per year on our crimi-nal justice system. In California it costs more than $75,000 per year to house each prisoner — more than it would cost to send them to Harvard.4 Mass incarceration exacerbates poverty and inequal-
[PDF File] 18 Mass Incarceration Is a Women’s Issue - JSTOR
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72 Mass Incarceration Is a Women’s Issue currently spend on policing in quality education, child care, job training for the 21st century, and affordable, quality housing. 129 We must end mass incarceration and end the mass criminalization of poverty and people of color. Investing in women and girls is the best
18 Mass Incarceration Is a Women’s Issue - JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep28417.21
72 Mass Incarceration Is a Women’s Issue currently spend on policing in quality education, child care, job training for the 21st century, and affordable, quality housing. 129 We must end mass incarceration and end the mass criminalization of poverty and people of color. Investing in women and girls is the best
Mass Incarceration of Minority Males: A Critical Look at its
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43496913
Mass Incarceration of Minority Males 181 which they received another prison sentence, or because of a technical violation of their parole. Research points to a growing concern that this rise of mass incarceration reflects a backlash to the Civil Rights Movement (Lopez, 2010). Additionally, racialized political rhetoric from politicians ...
[PDF File] Federal Policies and Mass Incarceration in America - Policy …
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Mass Incarceration INTRODUCTION Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing civil rights issues in America. As a world leader, the US has one of the highest prison populations in the world, with the total incarceration rate peaking in 2008 at 2.3 million (Vera Institute of Justice n.d.; World Prison Brief n.d.). US federal policy influences ...
Mass Incarceration in the State of Louisiana and its Impact …
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cause(s) of the issue has not been thoroughly investigated. How mass incarceration impacts the mental health of incarcerated men was thoroughly explored in this study. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the possible causes of mass incarceration to develop an effective strategy for reducing overcrowding in Louisiana ...
Contributing Factors to Mass Incarceration and Recidivism
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effectively address the social issue that is mass incarceration. The objective of this research paper is to examine the relationship between race and socioeconomic disparities of individuals and their likelihood of becoming incarcerated or recidivating. Literature Review Race and Mass Incarceration
[PDF File] The Changing Politics of Crime and the Future of Mass …
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Future of Mass Incarceration David Cole* For too many years, it seemed that the only possible stance a politician could take on crime was to be tougher than his opponent. For almost two generations beginning in the mid-1970s, state and federal legislators enacted increasingly harsh criminal penalties—mandatory minimums, “three …
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Issue 2 The Problem of Mass Incarceration: Diagnosis and Reform Article 5 12-2022 Judges and Mass Incarceration Carissa Byrne Hessick Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj Part of the Courts Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, Judges Commons, and the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons …
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