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Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface

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Eason, JM; Zucker, D; Wildeman, C
Published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
July 1, 2017

Academic work on crime and punishment has focused mostly on urban centers, leaving rural communities understudied, except for acknowledgement that rural communities warehouse a large number of prisoners and that rural prisons provide jobs and economic development for some struggling communities. This study uses a novel dataset that includes information on the home addresses of all prisoners in Arkansas from 1993 to 2003 to document imprisonment rates and racial disparities in imprisonment rates across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. We show how rural communities both receive and produce prisoners and that imprisonment and racial disparities in imprisonment vary more within different types of communities than across different types of communities. Further, we find that nonmetropolitan rates of imprisonment are higher than would be expected, based on observed local risk factors such as poverty rate. We close with a discussion of what these findings illustrate about concentrated disadvantage across the rural-urban interface.

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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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1552-3349

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0002-7162

Publication Date

July 1, 2017

Volume

672

Issue

1

Start / End Page

202 / 216

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  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
 

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Eason, J. M., Zucker, D., & Wildeman, C. (2017). Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 672(1), 202–216. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716217705357
Eason, J. M., D. Zucker, and C. Wildeman. “Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 672, no. 1 (July 1, 2017): 202–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716217705357.
Eason JM, Zucker D, Wildeman C. Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2017 Jul 1;672(1):202–16.
Eason, J. M., et al. “Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 672, no. 1, July 2017, pp. 202–16. Scopus, doi:10.1177/0002716217705357.
Eason JM, Zucker D, Wildeman C. Mass Imprisonment across the Rural-Urban Interface. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2017 Jul 1;672(1):202–216.
Journal cover image

Published In

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

DOI

EISSN

1552-3349

ISSN

0002-7162

Publication Date

July 1, 2017

Volume

672

Issue

1

Start / End Page

202 / 216

Related Subject Headings

  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences