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Jail incarceration across the U.S.: The role of the local state and place-based punishment vulnerability

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Punishment & Society

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Abstract

Punishment & Society, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 409-429, April 2026.
Social scientists have highlighted jail incarceration as an important social problem in the United States. However, few national-level generalizable studies have investigated how the characteristics of communities and their local governments influence ...