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Business Cycles And Racial Disparities In Punishment

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  • SAMUEL L. MYERS
  • WILLIAM J. SABOL

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Deeply rooted historical patterns allow us to make a correlation between imprisonment and unemployment and the marginalization of blacks. This paper examines the interrelationships among criminal activity, punishment, and cycles of the economic system based on the influence of political and economic forces on forming penal policies. The penal system is viewed as a device by which labor market fluctuations can be regulated. We examine differences between blacks and whites and between the North and the South to arrive at this paper's thesis: that race provides the link among economic cycles, employment, and crime.

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  • Samuel L. Myers & William J. Sabol, 1987. "Business Cycles And Racial Disparities In Punishment," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 5(4), pages 46-58, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:5:y:1987:i:4:p:46-58
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1987.tb00271.x
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    1. Gary S. Becker & William M. Landes, 1974. "Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number beck74-1.
    2. Samuel L. Myers, 1983. "Estimating the Economic Model of Crime: Employment Versus Punishment Effects," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 98(1), pages 157-166.
    3. Arthur F. Burns, 1969. "The Business Cycle in a Changing World," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number burn69-1.
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    2. Samuel L. Myers, 2002. "Presidential address-analysis of race as policy analysis," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(2), pages 169-190.

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