There are also systemic disparities that effect who will end up incarcerated. Age, race, and educational disparities are disadvantages to many minorities, causing them to be the prime victims of incarceration (Western, 2007). Studies show that more men then women are incarcerated and even more so black men than white. “The first wave of research on the consequences of mass imprisonment for social inequality focused almost exclusively on adult men” the second wave focused on the spill over effects on the families and communities (Lee, McCormick, Hicken, Wildemen,2015). This problem of mass incarceration really began to boom between 1970 and 2000, with state and federal prisons occupied by 1.3 million men by the end of the century (Pettit & Western, 2004). By the 1980s politicians were pushing for a “punitive law-and-order” approach with many sates establishing mandatory minimum sentencing and the three-strike law (Beito,
There are also systemic disparities that effect who will end up incarcerated. Age, race, and educational disparities are disadvantages to many minorities, causing them to be the prime victims of incarceration (Western, 2007). Studies show that more men then women are incarcerated and even more so black men than white. “The first wave of research on the consequences of mass imprisonment for social inequality focused almost exclusively on adult men” the second wave focused on the spill over effects on the families and communities (Lee, McCormick, Hicken, Wildemen,2015). This problem of mass incarceration really began to boom between 1970 and 2000, with state and federal prisons occupied by 1.3 million men by the end of the century (Pettit & Western, 2004). By the 1980s politicians were pushing for a “punitive law-and-order” approach with many sates establishing mandatory minimum sentencing and the three-strike law (Beito,