Social Problems

Jeanne Johnson

SOC203 (COC1440A)

Tirizia York

October 21, 2014

In the article Race, poverty and punishment: The impact of criminal sanctions on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality the author makes five main points about "the association between crime, punishment, and poverty has long been the subject of sociological and criminological investigation" (Wheelock and Uggen, 2006). The five points cover criminal sanctions and its victimizations, the impact the punishment has on the felon and their social circles, that African Americans are incarcerated seven times more than Caucasians, that criminal variation is linked to poverty, and that it is a snowball effect in creating more criminals and more poverty. Overall, Wheelock and Uggen have created an undeniable...