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

这是一项研究监禁、安置在 五个普通法国家的收容所和福利政策， 美国，英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰 在1955-1985年期间。 在此期间，趋势是 在所有五个国家， 减少使用精神病院。 的主要目的 研究是为了更充分地研究变化之间的关系， 五个国家的监狱和精神病院人口， 研究它们与福利政策变化的关系。 该研究将收集有关机构的定量数据， 能力，福利待遇和其他变量，在每个 五国 分析将使用汇总的横截面 时间序列分析结合更多定性历史 分析。 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行为。 其独特 贡献将是联系社会控制做法， 例如，监狱和精神病院具有更广泛的社会和 每个国家的福利政策所体现的政治进程 民族

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.