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Mass racialized incarceration: The production and maintenance of racial stratification in the post-Civil Rights United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mass racialized incarceration: The production and maintenance of racial stratification in the post-Civil Rights United States.
Author:	Schlesinger, Traci.
Description:	173 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Bruce Western.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1544.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3214589
ISBN:	9780542650406

Mass racialized incarceration: The production and maintenance of racial stratification in the post-Civil Rights United States.
Schlesinger, Traci.

Mass racialized incarceration: The production and maintenance of racial stratification in the post-Civil Rights United States. - 173 p.

Adviser: Bruce Western.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2006.

During the last quarter of the twentieth century, incarceration rates more than quadrupled, racial and ethnic disparities remained unabated, and the percent of the incarcerated population that is female nearly doubled from four percent in 1980 to over seven percent by 2000. In an attempt to understand how these changes are created and maintained, this dissertation examines the effects of sentencing policies on state-level admission rates and individual level maximum sentence lengths and the effects of race and ethnicity on pretrial criminal processing. Data on sentencing policies were collected from reading and coding complete criminal codes and through archival research at state law libraries. Other data used in the dissertation are from a variety of sources including the Current Population Survey, the General Social Survey, the National Corrections Reporting Program, the State Correction Reporting Survey, the Uniform Crime Reports, and the US Bureau of the Census. I use OLS and logistic models with state level fixed effects to examine the data. There are three major findings. First, mandatory terms and sentencing enhancements increase both state-level prison admission rates and individual-level maximum sentence lengths. Second, these policies disproportionately affect black (as compared to white) offenders. Third, disparate treatment of black and Latino offenders is more likely to occur when racialized stereotypes are made salient by other criminal justice features, such as the crime a defendant is charged with or the legal decision that is being made. Racial disparities in imprisonment would be cause for alarm even with incarceration rates at 1970s levels; the combination of extraordinary levels of incarceration with long-standing racial disparity has led to mass racialized incarceration. The findings of this dissertation make it clear that we cannot continue on our current course. It is imperative that we develop alternatives to incarceration and that we reconceptualize both race and discrimination.

ISBN: 9780542650406Subjects--Topical Terms:

212447
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Mass racialized incarceration: The production and maintenance of racial stratification in the post-Civil Rights United States.
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