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Environment can cause incarceration
Locked Up Video
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Chad Briscoe
Sasha Brown
Lisa Di Maggio
Da Monte’ Hollman
Lena Olaya
Dante’ Owens
John Shuman
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Research Questions
 Does environment impact a person’s probability of being
incarcerated?
 Who is being incarcerated?
 What is being done to change the cycle?
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The Research
 Surveyed 93 people who were previously
incarcerated
 Survey Locations
 Concord, Oakland, SF Bart, Pittsburg, Antioch, Rio
Vista, Brentwood, Bay Point
 Most in person, some over the phone
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Introductory Comments
 Environment has an impact on whether one is
likely to be incarcerated
 Now that we know this, it is important to detour at
an early age.
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Does environment impact a person’s
probability of being incarcerated?
43% had parents who were incarcerated
66% reported drug activity in their area
34% didn’t feel safe
35% saw 5 or more cops per day
65% believe police are racist
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Does environment impact a person’s
probability of being incarcerated?
Environment_led_to_crime
Incarceration
37%
63%
62%
38%
Yes
No
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Incarcerations
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By the time one realizes that environment leads to
incarceration, it’s too late
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Friends affect the number of times incarcerated
Incarceration
Friends_incarcerated
Box Plot of Incarcerations
26 to 50
1 to 25
-24 0to 0
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
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18
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Incarcerations
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The more friends you know that have been incarcerated= more times incarcerated
If in a gang, 100% had violent offences
Incarceration
Type_of_Offense
Violent
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39%
100%
61%
0%
No
Yes
In_a_gang
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100% !!
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Who is being incarcerated?
• 50% of those surveyed were abused as children
• 41% were between 20-30 years old
• 44% African American, 24% Latino, 16% White
• 21% Some HS, 35% HS Diploma, 33% Some College
• Typical income, $9,000 to $44,000
Who get’s locked up?
18%
10%
Asian
24%
White
44%
Latino
4%
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0
Ethnicity
Fuse Rectangular
Other
count
40
African-American
Incarceration
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1,5
Incarceration
Time spent incarcerated in months
Box Plot of Time_done
40 (44%)
African-American
8.5
20 (22%)
15
17 (19%)
White
12
4 (4%)
Other
12.5
9 (10%)
Tim e_done
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
20
12
40
Asian
0
Ethnicity
Latino
How many times locked up
Incarceration
Box Plot of Incarcerations
40 (44%)
African-American
4
21 (23%)
Ethnicity
Latino
2
17 (19%)
White
3
9 (10%)
Asian
2
4 (4%)
Other
0
2
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Incarcerations
16
18
20
22
1,5
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Trouble
in school
Incarceration
count
60
36%
64%
40
20
0
No
Yes
Trouble_in_school
Fuse Rectangular
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What
is being done to change the cycle?
Incarceration
50%
50%
27%
73%
Pressured
Yes
No
0
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_m ale_role_m odels
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Male role models reduces the amount of pressure felt to due
crime
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Parents_incarcerated
Especially
for
people
with
incarcerated
parents
Incarceration
47%
53%
22%
78%
Yes
No
0
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2
3
4
5
_male_role_models
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Male Role Models
Incarceration
71%
71%
60
20%
8%
0%
1%
count
45
30
15
0
0-1
2-3
4-5
_m ale_role_m odels
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6-7
8-9
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Community Needs
 More Male Role Models
Especially for children with incarcerated parent
 Earlier awareness of how environment can
lead to incarceration
 Friends who haven’t been incarcerated and
aren’t in gangs
 Reach people while they’re still in school
To focus on the needs of at risk kids and give them
the tools they need to make good choices as they
grow into adulthood.
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Strategy 1
Midnight Basketball
 Hosted by churches, police departments, and/or non profit
organizations
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To get youths off of the streets and keep them occupied doing
something healthy and productive
Good opportunity to be exposed to good male role models.
Life skills workshop
Successful in U.S. cities
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Strategy 2
 College bound males tutor high risk
elementary students
 Helps youngsters learn, expose them to good male role
models, and hopefully they will copy their behavior
 This would work well if the tutors earned high school
credits while participating
 Cost effective-can even be done during school hours
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Strategy 3
Summer Camp
 For young children
 Sponsored by wealthy business owners who may have had
a criminal history
 Fun along with education that teach children life skills
 Far from their neighborhood
 Bring in older, successful students who come from similar
backgrounds
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Chosen Strategy
Easy to implement
Affordable, sustainable
Quick implementation
Reach lots of people
Reaches the right people
Midnight
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Tutors
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Camp
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Midnight Basketball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAO89Gis6nw
In Closing….
When analyzing the data and working with tinker plots the
charts that stood out the most were how
• environment does effect crime
• Lack of male role models
• Importance in reaching at risk kids
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