Cornstalks and new chums: crime and nutritional status in settler Australia

玉米秆和新朋友：澳大利亚定居者的犯罪和营养状况

• 批准号: DP140102231
• 负责人: Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
• 金额: $ 15.92万
• 依托单位: University of Tasmania
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140102231
• 关键词: Cornstalks; new; chums; crime; nutritional

The project will use records for 200,000 Australian-born and migrant prisoners released from Tasmanian and Victorian gaols between 1853 and 1924 to probe links between childhood well-being and the propensity to re-offend. It will explore the extent to which childhood nutrition (inferred from adult height), the timing and place of birth, and adult occupation can explain migration advantages, the impact of large cities like Melbourne on child health, and the circumstances that gave rise to recidivism? This project will also explore changes in the composition of offenders over time and the extent to which different penal systems helped offenders to ‘go straight’.

该项目将使用1853年至1924年间从塔斯马尼亚州和维多利亚州监狱释放的20万名澳大利亚出生和移民囚犯的记录，以调查童年幸福与再次犯罪倾向之间的联系。它将探讨儿童营养（从成人身高推断）、出生时间和地点以及成年职业在多大程度上可以解释移民优势、墨尔本等大城市对儿童健康的影响以及导致再犯的情况。该项目还将探讨罪犯组成随时间的变化，以及不同刑罚制度在多大程度上帮助罪犯“改行”。