sentencing: Florida state prison sentencing counts by county, 1905-1910

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Florida state prison sentencing counts by county, 1905-1910

Description

Simple features (sf) with historic (1910) county boundaries of Florida with aggregated state prison sentencing counts and census data. Sentencing and population counts are aggregates over the period 1905-1910, where populations were interpolated linearly between decennial censuses of 1900 and 1910.

Usage

sentencing

Format

Simple features (sf)/data.frame with the following attributes:

name

County name

wpop

White population total for years 1905-1910

bpop

Black population total for years 1905-1910

sents

Number of state prison sentences, 1905-1910

plantation_belt

Binary indicator for inclusion in the plantation belt

pct_ag_1910

Percent of land area in agriculture, 1910

expected_sents

Expected sentences given demographic information and state level sentencing rates by race

sir_raw

Standardized incident ratio (observed/expected sentences)

Source

Donegan, Connor. "The Making of Florida's 'Criminal Class': Race, Modernity and the Convict Leasing Program." Florida Historical Quarterly 97.4 (2019): 408-434. https://osf.io/2wj7s/.

Mullen, Lincoln A. and Bratt, Jordon. "USABoundaries: Historical and Contemporary Boundaries of the United States of America," Journal of Open Source Software 3, no. 23 (2018): 314, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.21105/joss.00314")}.

Examples

data(sentencing)
print(sentencing)

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