In "The Effects of Mass Incarceration on Communities of Color" (Issues, Fall 2015), Robert D. Crutchfield and Gregory A. Weeks cite "coercive mobility" as a key driver of increased incarceration rates in communities of color. As a codeveloper of this concept, I think some additional background may be informative. Back in the late 1990s, when Dina Rose and I were studying the Tallahassee neighborhoods that gave rise to the coercive mobility thesis, we spent many a day talking to residents of neighborhoods where more than 2% of the residents (of all ages) went to prison every year. These places were almost all black, and they included some of the most historic black neighborhoods in the South. Our suspicion was that these high rates of "prison cycling," moving people in and out of prison, destabilized neighborhood life and disrupted informal social control, ultimately increasing the level of crime. It was not a very popular thesis among criminologists at the time.
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机译：在“大规模监禁对有色人种的影响”（问题，2015年秋季）中，Robert D. Crutchfield和Gregory A. Weeks提到“强制性流动性”是有色人种被监禁率上升的关键驱动力。作为这个概念的共同开发者，我认为一些其他背景可能会提供参考。早在1990年代后期，当我和Dina Rose和我研究塔拉哈西（Tallahassee）居民区时，就产生了强制性流动理论，我们花了很多时间与居民区交谈，其中有超过2％（所有年龄段）的居民都去了。每年入狱。这些地方几乎全都是黑人，其中包括南部一些历史最悠久的黑人社区。我们怀疑这些“监狱循环”的高比率，将人们带进和带出监狱，破坏了社区生活的稳定并破坏了非正式的社会控制，最终增加了犯罪水平。当时在犯罪学家中这不是一个很流行的论文。
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