LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Halfway House, Political Sociology, Social Stratification
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On the run wanted men in a philadelphia ghetto: People incarcerated in the us has grown 7x over in past 40 years: concentrated among black men with low educaion, this mass imprisonment transmits social and economic disadvantage. Discriminaion in labour market, health costs, obstacles to housing, etc. Imprisoned/formerly imprisoned men have diiculies paricipaing in sustained ways in the lives of their families. Expansions in incarceraion have increased policing and supervision in poor communiies. Poor urban communiies: people commit serious crimes, stand trial, go to jail, run from the police. Changes occurred with the war on crime, war on drugs the uniied endorsement of zero tolerance policies increasing police oicers per capita. Fieldwork, the 6 are pressured to inform on one another th street boys, and neighborhood context: Immersed herself within the 6th street community via aisha. Became known as aisha"s sis and other peoples cousin etc.
