Prisons, Asylums, and the Welfare State: Patterns of SocialControl in Five Common Law Countries

这是一项研究1955-1985年间美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰五个普通法国家的监禁、收容所安置和福利政策的提案。在此期间，所有五个国家的趋势都是增加对监狱的使用，减少对精神病院的使用。这项研究的主要目的是更全面地研究这五个国家监狱和精神病院人口变化之间的关系，并研究它们与福利政策变化之间的关系。这项研究将收集五个国家机构能力、福利待遇和其他变量的定量数据。分析将使用汇集的横截面时间序列分析和更多定性的历史分析相结合。这项研究将大大有助于我们了解社会如何识别和制裁越轨者。它的独特贡献将是将监狱和精神病院所体现的社会控制做法与各国福利政策所体现的更广泛的社会和政治进程联系起来。

This is a proposal to study imprisonment, placement in asylums, and welfare policies in five common-law countries--the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-- over the period 1955-1985. During this period the trend has been in all five countries toward an increased use of prisons and a curtailed use of mental hospitals. The primary objective of the study is to study more fully the relationship between changes in prison and mental hospital populations in the five countries, and to examine how they relate to changes in welfare policies. The study will collect quantitative data on institutional capacities, welfare benefits, and other variables in each of the five countries. The analysis would use pooled cross-sectional timeseries analysis combined with more qualitative historical analyses. This study will contribute greatly to our understanding of how societies identify and sanctions deviants. Its unique contribution will be to link social control practices as exemplified by prisons and mental hospitals with wider social and political processes expressed in the welfare policies of each nation.