Mass imprisonment and the life course: Race and class inequality in US incarceration
Mass imprisonment and the life course: Race and class inequality in US incarceration
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DOI：
10.1177/000312240406900201
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发表时间：
2004-04-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Western, B
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作者：
Pettit, B;Western, B
虽然美国的增长。尽管过去二十五年来监狱人口的变化一直受到广泛讨论，但很少有研究审查监禁中不平等的变化。我们通过估计不同教育水平的黑人和白色男性的终身监禁风险来研究刑罚不平等。结合行政、调查和人口普查数据，我们估计，在1965年至1969年出生的男性中，3%的白人和20%的黑人在30岁出头时曾在监狱服刑。监禁的风险因教育程度而有很大的不同。到1999年，在这一时期出生的黑人男子中，30%没有受过大学教育，近60%的高中辍学者入狱。监禁的新颖普遍性表明监禁作为年轻低技能黑人男子生命历程中的一个现阶段的出现。
Although growth in the US. prison population over the past twenty-five years has been widely discussed, few studies examine changes in inequality in imprisonment. We study penal inequality by estimating lifetime risks of imprisonment for black and white men at different levels of education. Combining administrative, survey, and census data, we estimate that among men born between 1965 and 1969, 3 percent of whites and 20 percent of blacks had served time in prison by their early thirties. The risks of incarceration are highly stratified by education. Among black men born during this period, 30 percent of those without college education and nearly 60 percent of high school dropouts went to prison by 1999. The novel pervasiveness of imprisonment indicates the emergence of incarceration as a now stage in the life course of young low-skill black men.