The Geography of Punishment:
How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children
by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and William Goldberg
July 2008
- Executive Summary
- Press release
- Report
- Sidebar: 1,000 feet is further than you think
- Sidebar: Vermont’s unique sentencing enhancement zone statute emphasizes that the zone laws should be highly specific and only one of many responses to drugs
- Full page interactive version of Figure 5, a map of all zones and the population in Hampden County.
- Appendix A County demographics.
- Appendix B Drug charges in Hampden County courts and in Massachusetts.
- Appendix C Demographic analysis of cities and towns in Hampden County.
- Appendix D Rural/Urban percentages of Hampden County cities and towns.
- Appendix E Demographic analysis of populations living in enhancement zones.
- Appendix F Demographic analysis of the populations living in enhancement zones, by House district.
- Appendix G Demographic analysis of populations living in recommended 100-foot enhancement zones.