Population Growth in U. S. Prisons, 1980-1996

Blumstein, Alfred; Beck, Allen J.

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“…We are not the only scholars to take a hard look at prison admissions data and come to this conclusion. In an earlier analysis, Blumstein and Beck (1999) conclude that nearly all incarceration growth can be explained by changes in official sentencing at the punishment stage of the court processing flow. In a more recent analysis, Neal and Rick (2014) estimate how the entire distribution of sentences has changed within specifically defined crime categories, and show a notable increase in the severity of sentencing.…”

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The New Scarlet Letter: Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record

Raphael¹

2014

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The New Scarlet Letter: Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record

Raphael¹

2014

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“…We selected these years because U.S. imprisonment rates dramatically increased during this period (Blumstein and Beck, 1999). In addition, the years studied represent the longest time-span for which we could gain access to annual state-level data on all necessary variables.…”

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“…After remaining relatively stable for nearly fifty years, the U.S. imprisonment rate more than quadrupled between 1970 and the middle 1990s, climbing from 100 to 476 prisoners per 100,000 residents (Blumstein and Beck, 1999). There is now a substantial body of literature that has examined this phenomenon.…”

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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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“…The per capita rate of imprisonment in America hovered at about 110 per 100,000 from 1925 to 1973, with little variation. 4 Starting in 1973, however, the rate of imprisonment has grown steadily, so that in 1999 there were 476 incarcerated individuals for every 100,000 residents-more than four times the 1973 level. 5 As a result, state prisons now house 1,200,000 individuals and federal prisons house 135,000.…”

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