RUI: The Birth Of The Post-Rehabilitative Prison: A Case Study of Arizona's Penal System

通过对最近快速发展的亚利桑那州惩教系统的案例研究，本研究探讨了在监狱政策的后康复时代，国家刑罚系统在很大程度上发展的轮廓、影响和实际操作。本研究解决了两个不同但相关的问题：1)国家刑罚政策的性质是否受到国家发展历史的影响，包括经济活动、对犯罪的政治反应以及对惩罚和犯罪的态度；2)刑罚政策对当代监狱和囚犯的影响，包括对国家各种监禁质量的评估。为了探索第一个问题，首席研究员将使用定量和定性分析二手数据和主要档案资料，这些资料与过去50年来亚利桑那州监狱系统的发展和快速扩张有关。该项目的第二个组成部分利用人种学的实地观察方法和深度访谈来探索亚利桑那州当代的监禁状况。

Through a case study of the recent, rapid development of Arizona's correctional system, this study explores the contours, impacts, and practical operations of a state penal system that has largely developed in the post--rehabilitative age of prison policy. This research address two distinct but related questions: 1) Whether the nature of the state's penal policies is influenced by the state's developmental history, including economic activity, political responses to crime, and attitudes toward punishment and crime; and 2) What impact penal policies have on contemporary prisons and prisoners, including an assessment of various qualities of imprisonment in the state. To explore the first question, the principal investigator will use both quantitative and qualitative analyses of secondary data and primary archival materials related to the development and rapid expansion of Arizona's prison system over the past 50 years. The second component of the project utilizes ethnographic field observation methods and in-depth interviews to explore the contemporary state of imprisonment in Arizona.