DPA Research & Policy Seminar Series – Ashley Muchow
November 5, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
November 5: Ashley Muchow (Criminology, Law, and Justice, UIC)
Title: Assessing the Spillover Effect of Local Immigrant Detention on Police Arrests
Abstract: Amid punitive shifts in criminal justice and immigration control in the 1980s and 1990s, Latinx individuals made up a growing share of the population confined to prisons and jails in the U.S. These disparities intensified during the country’s “war on drugs,” which resulted in the disproportionate arrest of young black and brown men. This project considers whether a similarly punitive turn in immigration control over this period – which featured the use of local jails to detain deportable noncitizens – aggravated ethnic arrest disparities. Using county-level arrest data from California between 1980 and 2004, this study uses a difference-in-differences design to examine whether the adoption of intergovernmental service agreements to detain immigrants in local jails increased rates of Latinx arrest. Findings from this project will shed light on the arrest consequences of local cooperation in immigrant detention and contextualize disproportionate Latinx representation in the U.S. criminal justice system.
https://uic.zoom.us/j/82365692809?pwd=NisyMjhwdVhXT202NlEyRzU4OU8vdz09
Meeting ID: 823 6569 2809
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Date posted
Sep 2, 2021
Date updated
Oct 27, 2021