141 - Special Session. Recent Trends in Mass Incarceration

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

A panel devoted to making sense of new developments in mass incarceration. The American criminal justice system has grown so dramatically over the past 40 years that one in 100 adults now resides behind bars and one in three black men can expect to spend at least a year in prison during his lifetime. This panel highlights research on the broad effects of criminal justice expansion with a focus on how the criminal justice system has infiltrated the lives of people who themselves have not been incarcerated and how such exposure is stratified by race and ethnicity, gender, and social class.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizer

• Becky Pettit, University of Texas

Presider

• Becky Pettit, University of Texas

Panelists

• Bruce Western, Harvard University

• Hedwig Eugenie Lee, University of Washington

• Tyler McCormick, University of Washington

• Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International

• Emily Wang, Yale University