2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Civil rights legislation in the 1960s promised greater racial equality
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in a variety of domains including education, economic opportunity, and
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voting. Yet those same laws were coupled with exclusions from surveys
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used to gauge their effects thereby affecting both statistical portraits
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of inequality and our understanding of the impact of civil rights
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legislation. This article begins with a review of the exclusionary
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criteria and some tools intended for its evaluation. Civil rights laws
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were designed at least in part to be assessed through data on the
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American population collected from samples of individuals living in
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households, which neglects people who are unstably housed, homeless, or
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institutionalized. Time series data from surveys of the civilian
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population and those in prisons and jails show that growth in the
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American criminal justice system since the early 1970s undermines
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landmark civil rights acts. As many as 1 in 10 black men age 20-34 are
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in prison or jail on any given day, and in the post-Great Recession era,
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young black men who have dropped out of high school are more likely to
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be incarcerated than working in the paid labor force. Our findings call
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into question assessments of equal opportunity more than half a century
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after the enactment of historic legislation meant to redress racial
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inequities in America.'
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affiliation: 'Pettit, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Texas Austin, Dept Sociol, 305
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E 23rd St,1700,CLA 3-306, Austin, TX 78712 USA.
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Pettit, Becky, Univ Texas Austin, Dept Sociol, Austin, TX 78712 USA.
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Sykes, Bryan L., UCI Sch Social Ecol, Dept Criminol Law \& Soc, Irvine, CA 92697
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USA.'
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author: Pettit, Becky and Sykes, Bryan L.
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author-email: bpettit@utexas.edu
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author_list:
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- family: Pettit
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given: Becky
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- family: Sykes
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given: Bryan L.
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1111/socf.12179
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eissn: 1573-7861
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files: []
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issn: 0884-8971
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journal: SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM
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keywords: 'civil rights; incarceration; law; policy; racial inequality; survey
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methods'
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keywords-plus: BLACK; EMPLOYMENT; IMPACT; RACE; LEGACY
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language: English
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month: JUN
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number: 1, SI
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number-of-cited-references: '64'
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pages: 589-611
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papis_id: 15b0f4543741bc69a245826a80320c00
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ref: Pettit2015civilrights
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times-cited: '29'
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title: 'Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion: Mass Incarceration and the
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Masking of Inequality'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000355695300007
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usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
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usage-count-since-2013: '60'
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volume: '30'
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web-of-science-categories: Sociology
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year: '2015'
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