Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration

Peter Temin ()
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Peter Temin: Center for Economic and Policy Research

No inetwp155, Working Papers Series from Institute for New Economic Thinking

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: mass incarceration; War on Drugs; racism; neighborhood effects; Head Start (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H72 J15 K14 N11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2021-04-08
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