The Growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences

Abstract

The growth of incarceration in the United States : exploring causes and consequences / Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western, editors, Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. National Research Council of the National Academies.pages cm Includes bibliographical references.

The effect of person‐first language on attitudes toward people with addiction

“…Due to the specific impact of language on authoritarian attitudes toward people with addiction, education and training on the influence of language should be incorporated into the criminal justice system specifically. The incarceration rate for individuals with addiction is high and stigmatizing attitudes may adversely impact the decisions made in the criminal justice system (Travis et al, 2014). Further, the intersection of substance use stigma and racial bias further increases the disproportionate treatment and criminalization of Black and Latinx individuals, who face longer and harsher sentences than their White counterparts (Garrison, 2011;Nicosia et al, 2013;Nowotny, 2015).…”

Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders

“…Finally, future research should focus on varying both the type and severity of the criminal offense presented. In conclusion, the present study provides an initial step toward the development of a new method to help dampen public demand for overly harsh retributive responses to criminal behavior that have been identified as a major contributor to American Punitiveness and our current mass incarceration epidemic Travis et al, 2014).…”

System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration

“…Mass incarceration in the United States has led to wide-ranging social, economic, and health consequences, not only for incarcerated individuals but also for their families and communities (Kirk & Wakefield, 2018;Travis et al, 2015). By 2012, nearly 7 percent of all U.S. children and more than 13 percent of Black children had lived with a parent who was incarcerated at some point since the child's birth (Murphey & Cooper, 2015), exposing them to the wide array of stressors associated with parental incarceration (Geller et al, 2011;Poehlmann, 2005).…”