NCJ Number
130667
Journal
Journal of Quantitative Criminology Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1991) Pages: 99-121
Date Published
1991
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This paper examines the relationship between economic conditions and incarceration in Georgia between 1868 and 1936.
Abstract
Time-series analysis provides evidence that declining cotton prices increased the rate at which both black and white males were incarcerated. Changes in cotton production, decline in racial economic inequality, and demographic shifts also affected incarceration rates. Each had quite different implications for black and white punishment, however. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for research on punishment in general and Southern punishment, in particular. 3 figures, 4 tables, and 112 references (Author abstract)