Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling

IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY American Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1086/725424
Naomi F Sugie, Carol Newark
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Punitive policies of welfare and criminal legal systems reflect a shared orientation governing social marginality. The welfare drug bans, which prohibit people convicted of drug-related felonies from receiving cash assistance and food stamps, are a key example of increasing synergies between the two systems. In this article, we examine whether the bans increase recidivism by leveraging a methodologically rigorous approach using administrative data from California to compare rearrest rates among people convicted before and after the bans. We find that the cash assistance ban has no measurable impact on recidivism, but the food stamps ban hastens time to arrest, particularly in counties with more accessible policies and more generous benefits. We also find differences in the bans” effects by gender and race/ethnicity, with consequences concentrated among non-Hispanic White and Black men. The findings underscore the importance of inclusive welfare systems for protecting against repeat contact with the criminal legal system.
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福利禁毒与刑事法律循环
福利惩罚政策和刑事法律制度反映了治理社会边缘化的共同方向。福利性毒品禁令禁止被判犯有毒品重罪的人获得现金援助和食品券,这是两个系统之间日益协同作用的一个关键例子。在这篇文章中,我们利用加州的行政数据,通过比较禁令前后被定罪者的重新逮捕率,研究禁令是否会增加累犯。我们发现,现金援助禁令对累犯没有可衡量的影响,但食品券禁令加快了逮捕时间,尤其是在政策更容易获得、福利更慷慨的县。我们还发现,禁令的影响因性别和种族/民族而异,其影响集中在非西班牙裔白人和黑人男性中。调查结果强调了包容性福利制度对防止再次接触刑事法律制度的重要性。
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