Write a paper discussing the overlap of crime, punishment, and poverty. In your paper, please explain the following five core arguments made by the authors:

Criminal sanctions and victimization work to form a system of disadvantage that perpetuates stratification and poverty.  Punishment impacts individuals convicted of felonies, as well as their families, peer groups, neighborhoods, and racial group.  After controlling for population differences, African Americans are incarcerated approximately seven times as often as Whites.  Variation in criminal punishment is linked to economic deprivation.  As the number of felons and former felons rises, collateral sanctions play an ever-larger role in racial and ethnic stratification, operating as an interconnected system of disadvantage.

This is a mini research paper that requires moderate research in the respected educational databases. Your topic for this paper is to discuss how families have changed in the last 50 years. You are required to have a minimum of 5 researched periodicals, journal articles, books, or other educational sources. UNDOCUMENTED sources do not count as legitimate research. This paper should approximate 5-7 pages of text not including a title page and reference page.