The economics of mass incarceration (with Robynn Cox)

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 www.robynncox.com  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

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We are living through a paradigm shift from trickle-down neoliberalism to middle-out economics — a new understanding of who gets what and why. Join zillionaire class-traitor Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers as they explore the latest thinking on how the economy actually works.