种族隔离与种族与犯罪经济学研究的边缘化

Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime

Journal of Economic Literature · 2022
被引 12
人大 A-ABS 4

中文导读

用文献计量方法检验主流经济学对黑人经济学家或《黑人政治经济学评论》发表的种族与犯罪研究存在引用偏见,发现相关论文被引率更低,并指出身份认同、警察使用武力和大规模监禁三个被忽视的研究方向对政策制定有价值。

Abstract

This essay examines the extent to which research on the economics of race and crime produced by Black economists or published in the flagship journal of the organization of Black economists, the Review of Black Political Economy (RBPE), is undervalued by mainstream economics. We use modern bibliometric methods to test for citation biases in the economics of crime literature. We also identify the contributions of three streams of research overlooked in the mainstream literature: identity, police use of force, and mass incarceration. We find evidence that Blacks publishing on race and crime in top economics journals are less likely to be cited than non-Blacks and that articles published in the RBPE are less likely to be cited than articles published in other journals. A review of some under-cited articles reveals that themes related to identity, police use of force, and mass incarceration hold valuable insights for policy makers and those seeking solutions to problems of persistent racial disparities in the criminal legal system.

种族隔离经济研究边缘化种族与犯罪引用偏见