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effect of incarceration rates on mate availability and its effect on the formation and structure of the African American family
(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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