![]() To understand how such a high incarceration rate effects a community, Goffman lived in the “6 th Street” neighborhood for six years, first as an assignment for an undergraduate class at the University of Pennsylvania, later on her own, and finally as a graduate student at Princeton. ![]() The story told here is of what that prison boom does to one neighborhood whose young men filled the jails and prisons. More are on probation and parole-in short everyone in the neighborhood is themselves enmeshed in the criminal justice system, or someone close to them is. The situation is a product of the United States’ skyrocketing incarceration rates-in the poor undereducated black neighborhood Goffman studies, something like 10% of the young men are incarcerated at any one time. Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in America is about young African-American boys and men on the run from the police in Philadelphia. ![]()
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