TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972-2002
JO  - Criminal justice studies
A1  - Jackson, Henry
SP  - 226
EP  - 243
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1478-601X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2013.870073
ID  - ref1
ER  -