The Political Economy of Mass Incarceration and Crime: An Analytic Model

Peter Temin

International Journal of Political Economy, 2018, vol. 47, issue 3-4, 317-329

Abstract: This article presents a model of mass incarceration in the United States, which has the largest proportion of its population imprisoned among advanced countries. Although the 1968 Kerner Commission recommended integrating blacks into the larger American community, political decisions pushed American judicial policies in the opposite direction. The model demonstrates that the United States has moved from one equilibrium position to another. It explains why the growth of prisoners has ceased in the last decade and what would be needed to return to the original equilibrium.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2018.1517464

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