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Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration

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  • Peter Temin

    (Center for Economic and Policy Research)

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President Nixon replaced President Johnson's War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971. This new drug war was expanded by President Reagan and others to create mass incarceration. The United States currently has a higher percentage of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrial country. Although Blacks are only 13 percent of the population, they are 40 percent of the incarcerated. The literatures on the causes and effects of mass incarceration are largely distinct, and I combine them to show the effects of mass incarceration on racial integration. Racial prejudice produced mass incarceration, and mass incarceration now retards racial integration.

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  • Peter Temin, 2021. "Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration," Working Papers Series inetwp155, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
    • Handle: RePEc:thk:wpaper:inetwp155
    DOI: 10.36687/inetwp155
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    Keywords

    mass incarceration; War on Drugs; racism; neighborhood effects; Head Start;
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    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
    • K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law
    • N11 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913

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