Blog Post #10
Seminole County: Race, Crime, and Punishment in Florida Abstract: There is very little to no scholarship on crime and punishment as it pertains to race in the state of Florida. In Seminole county, men were being arrested and incarcerated in far greater numbers than women, however, non-white men were being arrested and incarcerated in even greater numbers than white men – 570 non-white men and 64 non-white women. In terms of white individuals arrested and incarcerated, 309 were white males and 18 were white females. This data based on sex of these individuals shows in part that they were largely multi-racial men that were being arrested. In Seminole county, non-white people were largely arrested for alcohol related crimes, assault, and finally, larceny. Depending on the year many of these crimes were committed, for example, when looking at alcohol related crimes, they were likely the highest during the Prohibition ye...