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How Law, Politics, and Economy Shaped Mass Incarceration

Wed, Nov 12, 3:30 to 4:50pm, Capitol Hill - M3

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

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These papers take various empirical approaches to the problems of mass incarceration and recent trends in decarceration in the United States. Together, they explore the ways that state policy shapes prosecution and pretrial detention; how local partisan politics and budgets impact incarceration; and the role of racial inequality, displacement and economic change in shaping local incarceration practices. Some of the papers use the Vera Institute of Justice’s updated Incarceration Trends dataset from the Incarceration and Inequality Project, which provides county-level panel data on local jail and state prison in the United States.

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