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Rediscovering the underclass.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we have rediscovered the underclass.... The better parts of town haven't dealt with the underclass for many years, having successfully erected screens that keep them from troubling us. Most important, we have dealt with crime. This has led to a curious paradox: falling crime and a growing underclass.
Consider this statistic: The ratio of prisoners to crimes that prevailed when Ronald Reagan took office, applied to the number of crimes reported in 2003, corresponds to a prison population of 490,000. The actual prison population in 2003 was 2,086,000, a difference of 1.6 million. If you doubt that criminality has increased, imagine the crime rate tomorrow if today we released 1.6 million people from our jails and prisons.
Criminality is the most extreme manifestation of the unsocialized young male. Another is the proportion of young males who choose not to work. Among black males ages 20-24, the percentage who were not working or looking for work when the first numbers were gathered in 1954 was 9 percent. That figure grew during the 1960s and 1970s, stabilizing at around 20 percent during the 1980s. The proportion rose again, reaching 30 percent in 1999, a year when employers were frantically seeking workers for every level of job.
Why has the proportion of unsocialized young males risen so relentlessly? In large part, because the proportion of young ...
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