Florida state prison sentencing counts by county, 1905-1910

Source: R/data.R

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.

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, doi:10.21105/joss.00314 .

Examples

data(sentencing)
print(sentencing)