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| what problems did it cause when imprisoning so many urban blacks started? |
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| it discouraged marriage and the formation of families, thus contributing to moral and social break down |
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-was all for locking up urban blacks or whoever committed crime
-he said the root cause of crime is CRIMINIALS |
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| The article says the root cause of crime or at any rate violent crime is |
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| the failure of families to shape and restrain the behavior of young men |
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| Not all men are criminally inclined. |
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| Why aren't all men criminally inclined? |
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| because some are parents themselves, or just brought up good. |
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| The market market is affected when |
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| a large number of men are imprisoned. |
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| when a large number of men are imprisoned it |
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| increases the likelihood of illegitimacy and discourages the formation of families |
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| Reform of drug laws and drug enforcement tactics can help to restore balance to the black marriage market |
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| High gender ratios and violence |
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| basically means more men than women |
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| The most dangerous behavior, such as street fighting or drunk driving, occurs |
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| in the teens or twenties. |
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| A country like USA who has more young people and more men will result to |
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| more violence and disorder |
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| The absent of women, children and elderly occurs |
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| when men are put into camps, frontier boom towns and so on |
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| When men are not around women, children and old people |
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| it causes drunkenness, violence, gambling, neglect, early death and disease |
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| Places where there were more men than women resulted to homicide rates like |
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California 1850s 83 per 100,000 (mining town)
Colorado 105 per 100,000 (mining town)
Texas 229 per 100,000 (cattle camp, cowboys, hunters) |
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| Nonfrontier or post frontier regions were |
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| more normal gender ratios experienced much less homicidal violence. For example. Illinois 4.3 per 100,000 1859-1900 |
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| Low Ratios and illegitimacy |
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| Lower gender ratios is when |
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| females are substantially more numerous than men --can also give rise to social disorder. |
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| Low gender ratios encourage |
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| Most illegitimate children lack not only fathers but also |
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-the whole family idea of having a aunt, uncle, big happy family
-supervision & are more likely to be in gangs
-miss the opportunity to experience discipline
-and less likely are able to form a family and stay married |
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| Willard Waller talks about |
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| when a person who had less to lose-who was less in love, less dependent-exercised power over the other person, who was more willing to sacrifice to keep the relationship alive. |
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| Marcia Guttentag and Paul Secord |
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-talked about least interest/dyadic power.
-they argued HIGH gender ratio situations, most women would prize their virginity and expect to marry up, marry young and stay home and bear kids
-& LOW gender ratio situations are more premarital sex and illegitimacy; more female headed households, female working, later marriages for women and more divorce |
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| Women in low gender ratio nations |
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| had lower rates of marriage and fertility and higher rates of divorce and illegitimacy |
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| Young black urban men are far more likely than white of comparable age to be unemployed, imprisoned, crippled, institutionalized, addicted, or otherwise bad bets as potential husbands. |
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| black men take white wives twice as often as black women take white husbands. |
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| Dyadic power equals sexual leverage |
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| Black women are unwilling to engage in premarital sex even though they are already disadvantage in the tight market. |
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| The gender ratio and violence turns out to be |
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| paradoxical. too many or too few women can both lead to problems |
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| The best marriage market is a market that is |
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| 1 in every 3 black men in their 20s |
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| was in prison, on probation or parole. |
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-787, 000 black men in their 20s were under some form of criminal justice control
-306,000 behind bars
-351,000 on probation
-130,000 on parole |
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| The cost of taxpayers for the criminal justice control of these black men is more than |
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| no real evidence to relate the decline in violent crime is the result of people being in jail |
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| The doubling of the inmate population caused |
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| a lot of decrease from dollars going to education |
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| a less chance for the young people to have a job or a future |
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| Children who have parents in jail |
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| have children, mostly under the age of 18 |
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| Marc Mauer and Tracy Huling says |
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-people who have done time are at an economic and martial disadvantage when they are released
-people who done time also cant get a good job which makes them less attractive as a marriage partner |
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In GA, more whites than blacks were arrested for drug offenses before the drug war began in the mid-1980s.
-From 1990-1995 the black drug arrest rate per 100,00 was more than 5 times that of whites. |
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| Blacks were arrested at roughly twice the rate of white Georgians for |
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| sale or possession of Mary J |
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| A study of 150,00 criminal cases in connecticut |
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| found that bail for black and Hispanic men averages twice that of whites for the same offense. |
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| A California study of 700,000 case |
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| found that blacks of Hispanics were less likely than whites to have their charges dropped or cases dismissed, to plead out cheaply, or otherwise benefit from prosecutorial or judicial discretion. |
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| crack cocaine= the same penalty as powder cocaine. Deal 500 grams of prison cocaine, get five years, deal five grams of crack, ditto. |
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| a entrepreneurial activity |
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-people have jobs and still deal drugs on the side
-they do this because the business is truly their own, no boss no rules |
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| Elijah Anderson says the split between black community is called |
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| the culture of decency and the culture of the street |
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talks about the street code
-the culture of the street is disdainful(dislike) of conventional values such as marriage and sexual restraint.
-men play girls instead of play house, marriage it the last thing one their minds |
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| sending fewer black men to prison will solve the problem |
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| Why isnt it enough to just keep the black men out of the prisons? |
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| -because they will need more than just staying out of trouble living in the community they live in. they need jobs and the will to keep those jobs and to base family on them. |
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family disruption gives rise to violence which reduced the effective gender ratio directly
-indirectly through imprisonment which simultaneously hurts male job prospects |
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