Annotated Bibliography: The Effect of Mass Incarceration on African American Communities and Other Communities of Color in the United States

QUESTION

Create a descriptive or information annotated bibliography that you could use to write an essay that describe the problem of mass incarceration in the U.S, explain its impact on African American communities and other of color in the United States. Your annotated bibliography must contain must contain eight reliable and/ or trustworthy sources ( books, articles, reports, qualitative research, and NO WEBSITES).

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Annotated Bibliography: The Effect of Mass Incarceration on African American Communities and Other Communities of Color in the United States

Pettit, B., & Western, B. (2004). Mass imprisonment and the life course: Race and class inequality in US incarceration. American sociological review, 69(2), 151-169.

This article investigates the level of inequality in imprisonment in the United States. The changes in the inequality in the treatment of black and white men in prison are discussed widely. The article will provide relevant information to my research, on the level of inequality that communities of color in the U.S face, and how the mass incarceration of individuals from the African American communities.

Clear, T. R. (2009). Imprisoning communities: How mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse. Oxford University Press.

In this book, the author looks at the issue of mass incarceration and how it affected communities, especially the African American communities in the United States. This article will help in the provision of information on the various negative effects that imprisonment has on the African American neighborhoods. Examples in my research will be derived from this book, since it gives a number of examples of the negative effects, such as an increase in the rate of crime.

Roberts, D. E. (2003). The social and moral cost of mass incarceration in African American communities. Stan. L. Rev., 56, 1271.

In this article, the disproportion in the number of black and white young men in American prisons in analyzed. The article will provide my research with the necessary information on the moral appropriateness of the incarceration of young African American men and the effect of mass incarceration on the communities of color.

Western, B., & Pettit, B. (2010). Incarceration & social inequality. Daedalus, 139(3), 8-19.

The authors discuss the social problem of inequality in the penal confinement in the U.S. This article will provide my research with information and data on the economic and social problems that the African American society suffers from as a result of mass incarceration. The various aspects of social inequality are discussed in this article and will play a major role in explaining how incarceration affects the community.

Schnittker, J., Massoglia, M., & Uggen, C. (2011). Incarceration and the health of the African American community. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8(1), 133-141.

This article conducts a review of the literature and evidence that links incarceration of African Americans and the health of the community. The article will be influential in my research as it will be the main reference for the discussion on the relationship between the communities of color in the U.S and incarceration. It will help in analyzing the level of harm to the African American society and other communities of color.

Mauer, M. (2011). Addressing racial disparities in incarceration. The Prison Journal, 91(3_suppl), 87S-101S.

In this article, the author reviews the trends in mass incarceration and the impact that it has on communities of color. My research will focus on criminal justice policies and how they contribute to the racial disparity in incarceration. This article will provide the necessary information on the criminal justice policy in the U.S. and act as an illustration of the effect of the policy on the African American communities.

Pettit, B. (2012). Invisible men: Mass incarceration and the myth of black progress. Russell Sage Foundation.

One of the main areas that my research will focus on will be the view of the social and economic development of African Americans. Generally, many polls and the media report an improvement in the economic and social status of the communities of color. However, this is not true, as this book shows. The incarcerated members of the community and their families are excluded in the polls, according to Pettit (2012). The myth of social development will be discussed in my research.

Coates, T. N. (2015). The black family in the age of mass incarceration. The Atlantic, 316(3), 82.

This article provides an illustration of the effect of mass incarceration of young African American men on the society and their families, through a narrative of a young man who was incarcerated when young. The article will be used as an example of the effects of incarceration on African American families in the United States in my research.

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