TY - JOUR
T1 - Concentrated incarceration and the public-housing-to-prison pipeline in New York City neighborhoods
AU - Holder, Jay
AU - Calaff, Ivan
AU - Maricque, Brett
AU - Tran, Van C.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The editor and reviewers provided invaluable comments on a prior draft. This research is supported by the Center for Justice at Columbia University and the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center of City University of New York.
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PY - 2022/9/6
Y1 - 2022/9/6
N2 - Using public housing developments as a strategic site, our research documents a distinct pathway linking disadvantaged context to incarceration—the public-housing-to-prison pipeline. Focusing on New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing developments as a case study, we find that incarceration rates in NYCHA tracts are 4.6 times higher than those in non-NYCHA tracts. More strikingly, 94% of NYCHA tracts report rates above the median value for non-NYCHA tracts. Moreover, 17% of New York State’s incarcerated population originated from just 372 NYCHA tracts. Compared with non-NYCHA tracts, NYCHA tracts had higher shares of Black residents and were significantly more disadvantaged. This NYCHA disadvantage in concentrated incarceration is also robust at different spatial scales. Our findings have implications for policies and programs to disrupt community-based pipelines to prison.
AB - Using public housing developments as a strategic site, our research documents a distinct pathway linking disadvantaged context to incarceration—the public-housing-to-prison pipeline. Focusing on New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing developments as a case study, we find that incarceration rates in NYCHA tracts are 4.6 times higher than those in non-NYCHA tracts. More strikingly, 94% of NYCHA tracts report rates above the median value for non-NYCHA tracts. Moreover, 17% of New York State’s incarcerated population originated from just 372 NYCHA tracts. Compared with non-NYCHA tracts, NYCHA tracts had higher shares of Black residents and were significantly more disadvantaged. This NYCHA disadvantage in concentrated incarceration is also robust at different spatial scales. Our findings have implications for policies and programs to disrupt community-based pipelines to prison.
KW - concentrated incarceration
KW - hypersurveillance
KW - public-housing-to-prison pipeline
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2123201119
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2123201119
M3 - Article
C2 - 36037360
AN - SCOPUS:85136884916
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 119
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 36
M1 - e2123201119
ER -