RT Article
T1 Deplorable or disposable?: the carceral state and ‘breaking bad’ in rural America
JF Tracing the relationship between inequality, crime, and punishment
SP 94
OP 132
A1 Gottschalk, Marie 1958-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1879529513
AB This chapter examines the limitations of viewing the US carceral state primarily through a racial disparities lens centred on differences in incarceration rates between whites and blacks. It surveys important shifts since the 1970s in who is being incarcerated in the United States, including racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic shifts, most notably between urban and rural areas. It deploys three common frameworks used to help explain the rise of mass incarceration and the hyper-incarceration of African Americans—the culture of control, the culture of poverty, and the war on drugs—to analyse the deepening penetration of the carceral state outside of major urban areas and to examine the opioid crisis.
SN 9780197266922
K1 US carceral state
K1 Racial Disparities
K1 Opioid crisis
K1 Rural incarceration
K1 Rural prisons and jails
K1 War on drugs
K1 Urban and rural disparities in incarceration
DO 10.5871/bacad/9780197266922.003.0005