Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis

This article demonstrates a method to measure the extent and variation of ethnoracial disproportion in world prison populations. Using novel data set covering eighteen democracies for year 2016, this shows that conspicuous prisons is pervasive which available. Socioeconomically marginalized ethnic racial groups are overrepresented every case. Further, pattern extends countries known penal progressivism, otherwise regarded as models fair rational criminal justice implementation. Correlation between national socioeconomic characteristics suggests complexity issue. A selection single-case analyses drawn from sample describe emerging under significantly varied conditions. I discuss causal hypotheses why would occur such differing places.