crime, punishment, and poverty
Write a paper discussing the overlap of crime, punishment, and poverty. In your paper, please explain the following five core arguments made by the authors:
- Criminal sanctions and victimization work to form a system of disadvantage that perpetuates stratification and poverty.
- Punishment impacts individuals convicted of felonies, as well as their families, peer groups, neighborhoods, and racial group.
- After controlling for population differences, African Americans are incarcerated approximately seven times as often as Whites.
- Variation in criminal punishment is linked to economic deprivation.
- As the number of felons and former felons rises, collateral sanctions play an ever-larger role in racial and ethnic stratification, operating as an interconnected system of disadvantage.
The paper must be three to four pages in length and formatted according to APA style.
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Abstract.
The relationship between crime, poverty and punishment has for a long time been the subject of criminological and sociological investigations. However, a classical literature has on the other hand associated poverty to crime. In that case, this line of analysis has characteristically scrutinized the role of deprivation and poverty improving the risk of criminal victimization and criminal involvement (Cook, & Child Poverty Action Group, 1997). Therefore such kind of an approach characteristically places groups or individuals in the middle……………….