The military and incarceration: Hidden mechanisms of racial inequality in the U.S. labor market, 1980-2010
Grant description:
This project will study the rise of mass incarceration in relation to military downsizing. The author will determine whether the military-penal crossover, occurring in the 1990s and continuing through the present, has reinforced racial inequality in the labor market, with blacks experiencing more incarceration while decreasingly enlisting in the military.