SOCI 1101 Lecture 37: 8 2
13 Dec 2016
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Crime rates are one factor increased in 70s & 80s. Crime rates have declined recently prison population declined since 2010. But, prison population went up by more than the crime rates in 70s & 80s. Crime declined in 1999-2010 but prison pop. Crime rates are not the only factor. We punished crime more severely/new crimes war on drugs. They affect each other inequality increases punishment and reverse. Since 1970s, us wealth/inequality has become the largest in the industrialized was. So has our incarceration rate: low social status attracts punishment. For the same conduct, lower status people (poor/minorities) are more likely to be punished. Propositions 1 & 2 as inequality increases, crimes of lowest status groups come to be punished more severely. Since 1970s, more low income americans incarcerated especially black men with no high school diploma (western and pettit) P increases i incarceration, prison record makes it harder to get a job.
