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Inequality and the Punishment of Minor Offenders in the Early 20th Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Martha A. Myers
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This article extends recent theorizing on 19th- and early 20th-century social control to the punishment of minor offenders in the American South. Despite surface differences in state control and in court contexts, the punishment of convicted misdemeanants strikingly resembled its more serious counterpart. The racial composition of both chain-gang and penitentiary populations was similar, as were trends in the rate at which the public and private sector forcefully expropriated the labor of black and white males. Depressed economic conditions adversely affected all punishment rates, regardless of race. Although more circumscribed in impact, racial inequality and labor supply and demand also affected incarceration in the chain gang. The author considers directions for future research and theory.

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Symposium: Crime, Class, and Community—An Emerging Paradigm
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Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 1993 , pp. 313 - 343
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Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

Footnotes

An earlier draft of this article was presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, 20–23 November, San Francisco.

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