Doctoral Dissertation Research: Punishment in America: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Prison Policy in Three American States, 1970-2000

博士论文研究：美国的惩罚：1970-2000 年美国三个州监狱政策的比较历史分析

• 批准号: 0111992
• 负责人: David Garland
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0111992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Punishment; America

This project examines the question of how and why states adopt particular prison policies. Current theories of imprisonment do not examine the processes by which state actors adopt prison policies, and social policy analysts largely ignore punishment as an area of inquiry. This doctoral dissertation research will fill this gap by developing a comparative-historical analysis of prison policy adoption, variation, and change in the American states from 1970-2000. The researcher conceptualizes the practices of imprisonment as a social policy, because like social welfare, imprisonment is a means by which states manage risky populations; it is a state policy that affects structural inequality, unemployment, poverty, and crime. The researcher employs a synthetic approach that relies heavily on political institutionalist and state--centered theoretical frameworks. The historical pattern of prison policy variation and outcomes has implications for contemporary corrections policy.

这个项目探讨了国家如何以及为什么采取特定的监狱政策的问题。目前的监禁理论没有研究国家行为者采取监狱政策的过程，社会政策分析家在很大程度上忽视了惩罚作为一个调查领域。这篇博士论文的研究将填补这一空白，通过发展监狱政策的采用，变化和变化的比较历史分析，在美国各州从1970年至2000年。 研究人员将监禁的做法概念化为一种社会政策，因为就像社会福利一样，监禁是国家管理风险人口的一种手段;它是一种影响结构性不平等、失业、贫困和犯罪的国家政策。研究人员采用了一种综合方法，严重依赖政治制度主义和以国家为中心的理论框架。 监狱政策的变化和结果的历史模式对当代矫正政策有影响。