Most prisoners come from few neighborhoods.

IMPRISONMENT; CRIME; NEIGHBORHOODS; SAMPSON, Robert; AFRICAN Americans

The article reports on a survey conducted by Harvard University sociologist Robert Sampson with sociology graduate student Charles Loeffler of Harvard, on the increasing incarceration rates in predominantly black neighborhoods in the U.S. Sampson said this rise in incarceration rates creates a sense of collective cynicism and fatalism that leads to further misconduct and imprisonment.