The effect of incarceration rates on mate availability and its effect on the formation and structure of the African American family : a theoretical and empirical analysis /
(Darity and Meyers 1984; Guttentag and Secord 1983; Staples
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (Darity and Meyers 1984; Guttentag and Secord 1983; Staples 1971; Staples 1989; Testa et al. 1989; Tucker 1987; Wilson 1985; 1989). Surprisingly, however, quantitative studies of A number of scholars have argued that declining mate and Neckerman 1986). Discussions of mate availability that are more pronounced in the African American population. argue that its impact on mate availability is important availability are not available nor are systematic availability for African American women has had important consequences for family formation and family structure in disproportionate incarceration of African American men and exist in the literature consistently stress the family structure and family formation and that the effects formation and family structure in the African American Guttentag and Secord 1983; Fossett and Kiecolt 1993; Jackson investigations of its potential consequences for family literature through developing the theoretical perspective population. This study addressed these gaps in the existing recent decades (Darity and Myers 1984; Dickson 1993; that incarceration has direct and indirect consequences on the impact of changing incarceration rates on mate |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Sociology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 106 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |