The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties

by Phillip Beatty; Amanda Petteruti; Jason Ziedenberg

Dec 1, 2007

This report describes the relationship between drug admission rates and the structural and demographic characteristics of counties -- budgets and spending for law enforcement, unemployment rates, poverty rates, and the percentage of the population that is African American.
The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties

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