Labor Surplus and Punishment: A Review and Assessment of Theory and Evidence

Chiricos, Theodore G.; DeLone, Miriam A.

doi:10.1525/sp.1992.39.4.03x0047u

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“…Box and Hale, 1985;Greenberg and West, 2001;Inverarity and McCarthy, 1988). However, as we noted earlier, research on this issue has been mixed (Chiricos and Delone, 1992).…”

Section: Class Conflict Racial Threat and Punishment Of Disadvantagmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Inverarity and Grattet, 1989;Inverarity and McCarthy, 1988;Jankovic, 1977). Both have their limitations, given the tremendous variation in penal severity across states and over time (see Chiricos and Delone, 1992). Consequently, recent research has begun to employ data for states over time (Beckett and Western, 2001;Greenberg and West, 2001;Jacobs and Carmichael, 2001).…”

Section: Politics and Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The finding regarding unemployment is consistent with many other null findings reported in the literature regarding this variable, even though our analysis uses a reasonably long series of state-level data, unlike previous research (cf. Chiricos and Delone, 1992). However, several analyses have reported a significant association between the proportion of a state that is black and its imprisonment rates (Beckett and Western, 2001;Greenberg and West, 2001;Jacobs and Carmichael, 2001).…”

Section: % Of the Total Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition and Imprisonment: An Analysis of States Over Time*

2005

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The now well‐documented explosion in prison populations over the last 30 years has spurred significant attention in the literature. Early research focused primarily on economic explanations. More recently it has focused on political explanations of prison growth. Here we extend research on political explanations of imprisonment by drawing on the literature on state politics and public policy. We argue that the effect of partisan politics on punishment is conditional on how much electoral competition legislators face. We test this hypothesis using annual state level data on imprisonment from 1978 to 1996. Our findings show that the effect of Republican state legislative strength on prison admissions depends on time and the level of competition in state legislative elections. We argue that these findings suggest the need for a more nuanced understanding of the link between partisan U.S. politics and imprisonment.

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“…Box and Hale, 1985;Greenberg and West, 2001;Inverarity and McCarthy, 1988). However, as we noted earlier, research on this issue has been mixed (Chiricos and Delone, 1992).…”

Section: Class Conflict Racial Threat and Punishment Of Disadvantagmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Politics and Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: % Of the Total Indexmentioning

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“…A review, for example, finds that only about 60 percent of 147 reported relationships between unemployment and imprisonments are positive (Chiricos and Delone 1992). Despite these discrepancies, this relationship is plausible.…”

Section: Unemploymentmentioning

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Social Divisions and Coercive Control in Advanced Societies: Law Enforcement Strength in Eleven Nations from 1975 to 1994

Kent¹,

Jacobs²

2004

Social Problems

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“…Under circumstances of high unemployment, we expect that courts would typically opt for more formal controls over high-risk populations (Greenberg, 1975;Chiricos & Delone 1992). In keeping with this expectation, Holzer, Raphael & Stoll (2004) administered an employer survey from four major U.S. cities and found that 19.5% of employers reportedly would not hire ex-offenders while an additional 42.1% said they probably would not hire ex-offenders.…”

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Social Inequality and County-Level Correlates of State Prison Releases and Releases from Community Supervision

Helms

Costanza²,

Gutierrez³

2016

IJSSR

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Prisoner reentry is an important contemporary policy concern as many ex-convicts reenter communities uneducated and unprepared to compete in local labor markets. This study uses data from the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) for the states of California, Illinois and Washington to examine contextual correlates of reentry patterns. The analyses reveal systematic correlates of releases from both incarceration and community supervision that highlight a diverse array of difficulties for offenders returning to their home community. The results of this study underscore the often-difficult transitions facing reentering offenders and support policy implications for those who oversee reentry processes.

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Labor Surplus and Punishment: A Review and Assessment of Theory and Evidence

Cited by 84 publications

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Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition and Imprisonment: An Analysis of States Over Time*

Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition and Imprisonment: An Analysis of States Over Time*

Social Divisions and Coercive Control in Advanced Societies: Law Enforcement Strength in Eleven Nations from 1975 to 1994

Social Inequality and County-Level Correlates of State Prison Releases and Releases from Community Supervision

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