Abstract The relative importance of racial and class inequality in incarceration the United States has recently become subject much debate. In this paper, we seek to give debate a stronger empirical foundation. First, update previous research on people’s likelihood being imprisoned. Then, examine risk having family member imprisoned or living high-imprisonment neighborhood. We find that prison ...

Abstract This article examines the commonly held conception that Paul was released after his first Roman imprisonment, went to Spain and eventually reimprisoned executed in Rome. After examining available evidence it is concluded theory of a release second imprisonment ill founded.

there is no doubt in the existence of the right to imprisonment in the marriage (nikāḥ) for the wife. that is to say, the wife is entitled to refuse submission until receiving all her dowry in case it is urgent (mu‘ajjal). the question arises here as to what the extent of this right to imprisonment is. does it merely apply to specific submission or does it include general submission, as well? i...

The concept of mass imprisonment emerged at the turn of the 21st century in recognition of the intractable nature of the late modern penal explosion, especially in the USA (Lynch, 2011). What had been perceived in the previous two decades to be a dynamic yet alarming phenomenon – the rapid growth and expansion in the use of incarceration – had now taken on a sense of permanence and immutability...