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Milwaukee County Prison Admissions by Offense 2000-2014

October 11, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Wisconsin

These graphs are calculated from the restricted files of the National Corrections Reporting Program. They show the rate of admissions to prison for new sentences by offense group separately for Blacks, Whites and the Black/White disparity. A chart for the offense codes is between the Black and White graphs. They

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State prison incarceration rates 1978-2007

October 8, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO SEE THESE FIGURES FOR 1978-2013 in a later post These graphs allow you to see the growth of state imprisonment 1978-2007, by race. I will have updated and error-checked data for 1978-2013 soon. Because I live in Wisconsin, I flagged the Wisconsin rates. These update at

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State Scatterplots: Why is Wisconsin Still the Worst for Black Imprisonment?

October 3, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Wisconsin

Wisconsin has stayed at the top of the pile in Black incarceration even though its Black incarceration rate has been declining. How can this be? The answer is that all the other states have been declining faster. By putting a scatter plot of state imprisonment rates on consistent axes, I’ve

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Race, Mass Incarceration, and Bill Clinton’s Policies

August 13, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

Did Bill Clinton’s policies cause the mass incarceration of Black people? Since I’ve done a lot of analysis of incarceration trends in the 1990s, I thought I’d bring some facts into this discussion. Short version: The steep increase in the mass incarceration of Black people happened before Bill Clinton took

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Vision for Black Lives

August 5, 2016 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

EDITED June 2020 to update links in the M4BL web site. Under the name  Movement for Black Lives , a coalition of contemporary Black Power organizations (including  Madison’s Freedom, Inc.) have worked for a year to develop a comprehensive vision and agenda for social change. This is an exciting moment

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Defining Protest and Protest Events

July 16, 2016 Pamela Oliver Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

Does protest help a group’s cause? Do cities with strong Black protest movements improve their policing practices in Black communities? Do police respond more repressively in places with strong Black movements? Does mass incarceration reduce the capacity for Black protest? To answer these questions, we need to know how to

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Videos for activists from social movement scholars

July 14, 2016 Pamela Oliver Social Movements

The Mobilizing Ideas blog has partnered with Jenn Earl’s Youth Activism Project which (as the name implies) studies activism by younger people) to provide advice to young activists by way of videos of top social movement scholars addressing important issues in organizing, supplemented with suggestions for further reading. The series

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Some thoughts about building community trust of police

July 8, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Police

A local reporter sent me an email asking my opinion of proposals to increase community trust of police. My “some general comments” turned out to be really long, so I decided to put them in a blog post. Then I edited it a bit more. As I write, this has

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Solitary Confinement

June 23, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail, Solitary confinement

Administrative segregation–solitary confinement–in Wisconsin prisons and the Dane County jail are issues today. Extended periods of solitary confinement (defined as 15 days or more) is considered torture by many human rights conventions, as is any time in solitary confinement for a mentally ill person. US prisons and jails routine use

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Community Control Over Police

June 21, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice

M Adams and Max Rameau have a forthcoming article titled “Black Community Control Over Police in the Wisconsin Law Review that they were kind enough to let me see in advance of publication. (UPDATE: Publication available here.)  The key argument of the article is that traditional ways of thinking about

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