@article{ref1,
title="Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972-2002",
journal="Criminal justice studies",
year="2014",
author="Jackson, Henry",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="226-243",
abstract="Guided by the Rusche and Kirchheimer thesis, this study examines variation in incarceration rates across states. Time-series regression analysis is applied to 30 years of state-level data to examine how economic factors interact with aggregate measures of race/ethnicity in predicting rates of incarceration. The analysis indicates that income inequality, not unemployment, is the most salient predictor of incarceration rates. That is, state-level measures of income inequality exert a strong, positive effect on state-level incarceration rates, and this effect is particularly salient in the presence of higher percentages of African-Americans.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1478-601X",
doi="10.1080/1478601X.2013.870073",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2013.870073"
}