African-American Incarceration Trends

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The proposed study investigates and explores the experiences of African-American males with affective disorders and the correlation between their histories of substance abuse and incarceration in the U.S. criminal justice system. Includes several graphs and tables.

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"According to Beck, Karberg and Harrison (2001), the criminal justice system has experienced a substantial growth during the last decade. Currently, more than 1.9 million individuals are incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons, representing a 76.8 percent increase since 1990 (Beck, et al., 2001). A study conducted by Beck and Harrison in 2000 revealed that the overall incarceration rate was 690 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. For African American women, the rate was 380 inmates per 100,000 women; for African American males, the rate was 4,848 per 100,000; for Hispanic women, the rate was 119 per 100,000; for Hispanic males, the rate was 1,668 per 100,000; for white women, the rate was 67 per 100,000; and for white men, the rate was 705 per 100,000. Further more, as stated by Bonezar and Beck (1997), at current levels of incarceration, newborn African American males have a greater than one in four chance of being imprisoned during their lifetimes, while Latin American males have a one in six chance, and white males have a one in twenty-three chance. These findings clearly demonstrate the degree to which African American males are at risk of being incarcerated within the U.S. criminal justice system."

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