RT Article
T1 Neighborhood Prison Admission Rates and the Sunbelt: Variation in Imprisonment, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Their Relationship Across the United States
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 4
SP 513
OP 540
A1 Campbell, Walter
A2 Gaes, Gerald G. 1947-
A2 Kling, Ryan
A2 Lewenstein, Ari 1941-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1693117517
AB Regional differences in the use of prison are, in part, due to cultures of punishment within Sunbelt states. To date, this has been largely studied at the state level, ignoring the smaller geographic areas in which the effects of imprisonment are deeply felt. We employ a novel data set to examine the relationship between prison and region and regional variation in the relationship between concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood imprisonment. We find that region affects neighborhood prison admission rates in unexpected ways, and that the relationship between concentrated disadvantage and prison admissions varies in magnitude by region. We discuss the implications of these findings for better understanding the impact of region and the processes that lead to imprisonment.
K1 Prison admissions
K1 Neighborhoods and crime
K1 Regional variation
K1 Concentrated disadvantage
K1 Sunbelt
DO 10.1177/0011128719847449