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Shawn Fremstad
@shawnfremstad.bsky.social
For the many, not the few. Class, labor, family. Born in Fargo.
Finally, the research I review uses pre-pandemic data. Crime and incarceration rates have recently decreased, and drug arrests have fallen sharply since 2019, but this may not hold in the current political environment. /FIN.
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
All that said, people racialized as Black remain disproportionately incarcerated compared to their population share, and the increasing significance of class doesn't negate the continued importance of ethnoracial disparities and racial domination. 9/
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
... and proposing that rising violent crime rates, economic restructuring, urban decline, and an incomplete social state contributed to the punitive turn in crime policy. 8/ catalyst-journal.com/2019/12/the-...
The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...
catalyst-journal.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
See also Clegg & Usmani (2019), disputing that the carceral system functions mainly as a race-based social control mechanism ... 7/ catalyst-journal.com/2019/12/the-...
The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...
catalyst-journal.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Clegg and Usmani (2024) found that adverse local labor market shocks due to increased Chinese exports led to significant increases in total incarceration rates for both Black and White people. 6/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 6/
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment
Studies have failed to show a positive effect of unemployment on incarceration despite reasons to expect such a relationship. We note that prior estimates have been muddied by the absence of substate...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Muller and Roehrkasse (2022) observe that Black-White inequality in the prison admission rate peaked in 2000 and then declined, while class inequality in admission, using education as a proxy, has surged for both groups. 5/ escholarship.org/content/qt74...
escholarship.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Light (2021) finds that the average sentencing difference between Black and White defendants in US federal courts narrowed considerably between 2009 and 2018, especially for drug offenses. 4/ academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...
The Declining Significance of Race in Criminal Sentencing: Evidence from US Federal Courts
Abstract. Racial inequality in sentencing has decreased substantially over the last decade. In 2009, the average sentencing difference between black and wh
academic.oup.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Robey, Massoglia, and Light (2023) highlight a substantial 44 percent decrease in the risk of incarceration for Black men between 1999 and 2019, with the fastest decline among young Black men. 3/ sociology.wisc.edu/2023/07/12/a...
A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment by Jason P. Robey, Michael Massoglia, & Michael T. Light (July 2023)
Demography Abstract: Mass incarceration fundamentally altered the life course for a generation of American men, but sustained declines in imprisonment in recent years raise questions about how incarce...
sociology.wisc.edu
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Beckett and Brydolf-Horwitz (2020) document significant declines in drug arrests and imprisonment for Black individuals between 2007 and 2018, attributing this partly to increased support for drug policy reform in urban areas. 2/ lsj.washington.edu/sites/lsj/fi...
lsj.washington.edu
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
... and Vivek Chibber's Rescuing Class from the Cultural Turn catalyst-journal.com/2017/11/cult...
Rescuing Class From the Cultural Turn
catalyst-journal.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Catalyst journal is publishing interesting stuff on class, including sociologist Dylan Riley's piece on Bourdieu's Class Theory ... catalyst-journal.com/2017/11/bour...
Bourdieu’s Class Theory
The Academic as Revolutionary
catalyst-journal.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I also found Will Atkinson's book Class, from
@politybooks.bsky.social Key Concepts series, very helpful as an overview, especially on Bourdieu's approach to class. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:10 PM