Mass incarceration feedback loop confirms the very white fears that caused it
Evidence
Racial moral panics resulted in exaggerated outrage that increased policing of certain black communities, dulled even further capacities for empathy and compassion, and confirmed and deepened white fears. And we now have nearly one million African Americans incarcerated, which for many people, consciously or not, affirms the perceptions that started the cycle in the first place. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 215
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Gives a concrete mechanism for how the value gap self-perpetuates: panic creates a prison population, which then validates the panic.
Related
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