Tempting to blame this on longue-durée forces in US history–white supremacy; settler-colonialism; Puritanism. But US kinda normal till 1972.https://twitter.com/pete_enns/status/921004370237456384 …
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I also don't think looking solely at incarceration rate as the comparison is useful. I know I'm tracking NJC argument, but...
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Slavery->sharecropping/post-Reconstruction was a form of incarceration. What was ratio of slaves:population v incarcerated:population today?
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Foreman also doesn't seem to account for why incarceration rates don't react to decrease in violent crime from '92 peak current pre-70 level
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I think a big driver is that Dems have disproportionately empowered prosecution as a response to "tough on crime," so "bipartisan" debate...
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Is more vs. less punitive prosecutors. Neither party, esp. nationally, speaks in a narrative critical of law enforcement generally
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