POL SCI 179 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Incarceration, Iatrogenesis, Standardized Test
26 Jan 2017
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Week 1: the structural causes of violence in. 40 years of a structures that makes violence prones in disadvantaged communities. Declining employment & earnings (especially among males), because of: Legal discrimination against felons (when they try to get a job) A little structural unemployment is like a vicious cycle no job now, not likely to work later. Rise in mass incarceration in the past 40 years (he compares this to russia"s gulags!) Felony conviction and/or imprisonment reduces lifelong earnings and employment by. It"s not the amount of time, it"s the conviction itself! 68% of black men without a high school diploma will be incarcerated. 21% of black men with a high school diploma will go to prison. Mass incarceration, declining employment and earnings & growth of single-parent families are all interrelated. If you grow up in a bad neighborhood, you have an employment disadvantage exposed to violence. Children who are exposed to violence are more prone to become violent.
