Discuss social class and the jail population
What will be an ideal response?
Despite bail reform efforts, the poor are still the group least likely to make bail and the ones most likely to commit petty offenses, to have mental health issues, to be considered flight risks, and to be unable to afford restitution. It is not surprising, then, that they remain overrepresented in jail populations. Criminologist John Irwin contends that, more than anything else, jails are "dumping grounds for the poor" and catch-alls for uneducated, unemployed, homeless, and impoverished offenders. He refers to these disorderly and disorganized persons as "rabble" and contends that the jail was invented and continues to be operated in order to manage society's rabble. One study found that Irwin's "rabble" theory may be overstated, but the fact still remains that the jail is a social institution in which the poor are overrepresented.
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