This week, talking in class about how people are facing inequality in life, and how its all based on various issues within society. What struck me was the way that, as we talked about in lecture, pathology is used in a way to imply a sickness or a plague. The way the tangles pathology deals with social problems and how they are affecting deep neighborhood structure and its connections with inequality. Then of course, the poverty trap, and how it can only be broken by government intervention or large organizational intervention.
The way Sampson discusses how concentrated incarceration affects things. He states that theres a massive correlation between those that are incarcerated, and those that are facing poverty and disadvantage.He tells us that the persistence level is high, over time. Which is alarming, because with this data that is gathered by the census, one might think that the government could use this data to actually accomplish something to take care of the problem. With this information, the government could do countless things, and in the process, likely breaking the poverty trap.
Coming in and starting government work programs in the area would likely help a ton of families out, and start generating a better and more legitimate economy in these areas. This would also give people a chance to expand the area. When people start spending more, making the economy bigger, which is in turn giving people more jobs in these areas, and likely helping out several local businesses, which is only in turn going to make things work out more. This generates tax revenue, which is going to go back to the schools in the area, hopefully, overall making it a more flourishing marketplace, making things better for everyone and the city that this is happening in. This would likely lower incarceration rates, as people would have legitimate means of getting a paycheck every week, and probably just lower crime rates in general after the jobs really take a hold.
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