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22 Punishment & Soc'y 3 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/punscty22 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Punishment & Society 2020, Vol. 22(l) 3-27 Difference and200 o,2,)32 Dc The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: punishm ent: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.I 177/1462474518816643 Ethno-political exclusion, .....assagepub.com/hore/pun colonial institutional $SAGE legacies, and incarceration Andrew P Davis and Michael Gibson-Light University of Arizona, USA Abstract One dominant theoretical explanation for higher incarceration rates across the world focuses on how a nation's level of diversity or minority presence broadly writ unleashes racial resentment that can lead to incarceration. This article contends that population heterogeneity alone offers an incomplete picture of how ethnic-based tension can affect incarceration rates. Rather, we argue that majority ethnic groups around the world use prison systems in order to govern and manage minority populations, especially those systematically excluded from power. In addition, we argue that these political structures have their roots in a nation's colonial legacy, a legacy that shapes a nation's contempo- rary incarceration rates. Results from our quantitative analysis reveal that controlling for competing explanations, there are positive associations between ethnic political exclusion and the length and form of a nation's colonial experience and rates of incarceration. Keywords cross-national analysis, ethnicity, incarceration Corresponding author: Andrew P Davis, University of Arizona, 400 Social Sciences Bldg., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA. Email: andrewpdavis@email.arizona.edu