Unintended Impacts of Sentencing Reforms and Incarceration on Family Structure in the United States, 1984-1998 / Samuel L. Myers.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3662.

ICPSR ; 3662

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This project sought to investigate a possible relationship between sentencing guidelines and family structure in the United States. The research team developed three research modules that employed a variety of data sources and approaches to understand family destabilization and community distress, which cannot be observed directly. These three research modules were used to discover causal relationships between male withdrawal from productive spheres of the economy and resulting changes in the community and families. The research modules approached the issue of sentencing guidelines and family structure by studying: (1) the flow of inmates into prison (Module A), (2) the role of and issues related to sentencing reform (Module B), and family disruption in a single state (Module C). Module A utilized the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program data for 1984 and 1993 (Parts 1 and 2), the 1984 and 1993 National Correctional Reporting Program (NCRP) data (Parts 3-6), the Urban Institute's 1980 and 1990 Underclass Database (UDB) (Part 7), the 1985 and 1994 National Longitudinal Survey on Youth (NLSY) (Parts 8 and 9), and county population, social, and economic data from the Current Population Survey, County Business Patterns, and United States Vital Statistics (Parts 10-12). The focus of this module was the relationship between family instability, as measured by female-headed families, and three societal characteristics, namely underclass measures in county of residence, individual characteristics, and flows of inmates. Module B examined the effects of statewide incarceration and sentencing changes on marriage markets and family structure. Module B utilized data from the Current Population Survey for 1985 and 1994 (Part 12) and the United States Statistical Abstracts (Part 13), as well as state-level data (Parts 14 and 15) to measure the Darity-Myers sex ratio and expected wel... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03662

Contents:

Part 1: Module A: 1984 Age, Sex, Race Arrest Data; Part 2: Module A: 1993 Age, Sex, Race Arrest Data; Part 3: Module A: 1984 Prison Admissions Data; Part 4: Module A: 1993 Prison Admissions Data; Part 5: Module A: 1984 Prison Releases Data; Part 6: Module A: 1993 Prison Releases Data; Part 7: Module A: County Social and Economic Data; Part 8: Module A: 1985 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Data; Part 9: Module A: 1994 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Data; Part 10: Module A: County Population Data; Part 11: Module A: State Identifiers Data; Part 12: Modules A and B: State-Level Population, Business, and Vital Statistics Data; Part 13: Module B: Statistical Abstract Data; Part 14: Module B: 1985 State-Level Data; Part 15: Module B: 1995 State-Level Data; Part 16: Module C: Minnesota Department of Corrections Data; Part 17: Module C: Minnesota ZIP Code Data; Part 18: Module C: Minnesota Crime Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1984; and end: 1998.

OCLC:

61155318

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