The economics of mass incarceration (with Robynn Cox)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Show Notes
What role does the criminal justice system play in economic inequality? How does economic inequality cause mass incarceration? And how do we tease those two questions apart? Robynn Cox, an expert in the economics of mass incarceration, talks about her research uncovering the links between economic inequality and the criminal justice system.
Robynn Cox is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. She is an economist and inequality researcher, and her work focuses on understanding the social and economic consequences of mass incarceration.
Twitter: @RobynnCox
Overcoming social exclusion: Addressing race and criminal justice policy in the United States https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cox.pdf
The Impact of Mass Incarceration on the Lives of African American Women
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1007/s12114-011-9114-2
Identifying the Link Between Food Security and Incarceration
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/soej.12080
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.22277
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2019.1709883
http://www.jameinpcunningham.com/uploads/1/1/2/0/112070441/black_lives_ccow.pdf
Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/
Twitter: @PitchforkEcon
Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer