The Social Construction of Criminality and the Adoption of State Prison Copay Policies

• In Event: Policing, Punishment and Vulnerable Populations

Brief Overview

Using event history analysis, this study finds that the primary factors motivating the adoption of punitive copay policies for state inmates is the ideological make-up of a state’s government, and the racial make-up of a state’s inmates.

Author

• Michael C Nicholson, University of Alabama