Race shapes imprisonment far more for men than for women.
Evidence
Among women, the Black/White imprisonment ratio was only 3.13, while being an astounding 11.85 for Black men compared to White men. In other words, within the CJS, race is a substantially more consequential social identity among men than it is among women. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 104
Categorization
- SHARE: The 3.13 vs 11.85 racial disparity ratio breakdown by gender is a pointed statistic worth sending to anyone who works on criminal justice or intersectionality.
- XREF: Directly corroborates the intersectional point made in the Plant et al. shooting study—two independent evidence streams for the same phenomenon.