SOCI 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1: Human Capital, Social Capital
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Prisoners and former prisoners do not necessarily share a common class location or relation the the economic system (ghetto: best categorized as a weberian status group sharing a common dishonor. Estimated 16. 1 million current or former felons in us: us has highest incarceration rate in world since 2002, 93% men. Rapid increase generally understood as a series of cultural and demographic, political, and economic shifts: widespread agreement intensely political (racialized, media attention and malleability of public opinion factor in. Garland- mass incarceration not de ned by imprisonment of large numbers but rather systematic imprisonment of whole groups of the population. Stratifying effects of imprisonment: high rates of incarceration, signi cant disparities in likelihood of being imprisoned, connections of current and former inmates to social institutions. Prisons tend to house those with least human capital, nancial capital, and social capital. Those who are undereducated and ill-prepared for labor market more likely to end up in prison.
