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Title: Moving Beyond Black and White: Examining the Incarceration-Earnings Relationship among Latinos
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Johnson, Kecia |
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Moving Beyond Black and White: Examining the Incarceration-Earnings Relationship among Latinos Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Criminal Justice System; Earnings; Ethnic Differences; Hispanics; Incarceration/Jail; Wage Differentials Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the past decade, the growing proportion of the Latino population entering prison has increased dramatically. As a result of mass imprisonment policies, there is a need to investigate the economic consequences of incarceration for Latinos. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, this paper examines the economic costs of incarceration by comparing the earnings trajectories of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ex-offenders with their non-offender counterparts. The findings suggest that incarceration depresses the earnings of all Latino men. However, there is variation in the wage difference between the ex-offenders and non-offenders within each of the ethnic groups. This paper concludes that racialized criminal justice policies challenge the economic stability of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican men regardless of incarceration status. |
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Johnson, Kecia. "Moving Beyond Black and White: Examining the Incarceration-Earnings Relationship among Latinos." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2012. |