2012
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1998448
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'The Silent Majority' in Black and White: Invisibility and Imprecision in the Historiography of Mass Incarceration

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“…where φ k denotes the normalised degree of variation; the smaller the value, the greater the weight to be given by the corresponding expert [18].…”
Section: Normalising This Givesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…where φ k denotes the normalised degree of variation; the smaller the value, the greater the weight to be given by the corresponding expert [18].…”
Section: Normalising This Givesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, Marie Gottschalk writes of the importance of the growing recognition of violence against women, both stranger-and partner-perpetrated violence, in creating tougher criminal laws (Gottschalk 2006). Likewise, work by Michael Fortner and Randall Kennedy, along with the Kerner Commission report, tells of the importance of attention to Black victimization by other Blacks in explaining rising incarceration rates (Kennedy 1998;Fortner 2013Fortner , 2014. Jonathan Simon writes of the buildup of state capacity in response to the threat of violence from drug gangs and foreign terrorists (Simon 2007).…”
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“…But the formation of this policy does not occur within the private sector or within coalitions of private- and public-sector actors—as Stone conceives of them. 1 Rather, it occurs within local and state bodies that, depending upon public attentiveness to the issue, are potentially autonomous or potentially subject to popular rule; and crime policy is executed by local bureaucracies that are governed by their own interests, rules, and capacities (Fortner 2013, 2014). In fact, Stone’s discussion of the reform of Atlanta’s Police Department during the mayoralty of Maynard Jackson exhibits these dynamics.…”
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confidence: 99%