Mass Incarceration

Question 1

Mass incarceration

Answer 1

the application of criminal justice in the US that comparatively and historically has extremely high rates of imprisonment and disproportionate rates of imprisonment among young, Black men from neighborhoods of concentrated economic and social disadvantage

Question 2

What is the driver of increasing incarceration rates?

Answer 2

policy changes

Question 3

Sentencing reform act of 1984

Answer 3

law limiting judicial discretion in sentencing with the goal to have sentence consistency jurisdictions

Question 4

Anti drug abuse act 1986

Answer 4

another attempt to impose mandatory minimums; crack cocaine versus powdered cocaine

Question 5

3 strikes legislations is strengthened or added

Answer 5

collection of laws all aiming to increase minimum sentencing for repeat offenders

Question 6

The New Jim Crow

Answer 6

the massive increases in incarceration in the South

Question 7

Prison labor

Answer 7

work around created in 13th amendment that still occurs where prisoners are compelled to work for little or no pay

Question 8

Possible drivers of discrimination in the criminal justice system

Answer 8

baseline behavioral differences, policing decisions, sentencing decisions

Question 9

Why have racial gaps in incarceration narrowed?

Answer 9

crime, arrests, and incarceration have declined overall; shift in war on drug; criminal justice reforms have been concentrated in cities