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Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality

  • Western B
  • Pettit B
Contexts (2002) 1(3) 37-43
DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2002.1.3.37
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Abstract

Changes in government policy on crime and punishment have put many poor minority men behind bars, more than their arrest rates would indicate. The growth of the penal system has also obscured the extent of economic inequality and sowed the seeds for greater inequality in the future.

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Western, B., & Pettit, B. (2002). Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality. Contexts, 1(3), 37–43. https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.3.37

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