ISSN 1746-6938 PAPER Introduction We present here a brief outline of findings from our research, which explores the relationship between welfare expenditure and levels of punishment. We begin by examining research on welfare spending and imprisonment rates across US states and replicate this work using data from 18 countries, including the United Kingdom. The results show that welfare provision...

The project has two goals. First, it seeks to explain both the overall trend of rising imprisonment and rising racial disparities in imprisonment, and geographic and temporal differences in these trends. Official data sets on arrests, imprisonment, and social, economic, and demographic factors are merged to create a new longitudinal data set that permits the researchers to control for current a...

From the early 1980s through 2000, the number and the percentage of African American men in prison skyrocketed. This would be expected to have negative impacts on Black well-being, but Black child poverty generally decreased during this period. Using data from the U.S. Prison Census and the Current Population Survey for the period from 1983-1998, we examine the effects of Black male imprisonmen...

visited a mental hospital to make a television documentary. Here he describes how his attitude to mental illness underwent a radical change as a result of working with the patients There are to most people certain aspects of life which they never really think about. When these subjects are mentioned in their presence the brain operates like a tumbler lock. Click, click, click?the trigger-words ...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of and groups vulnerable to cocaine use in prison. METHODS We selected 376 inmates with history of cocaine use in prison (cases) and 938 inmates with no history of drug use (controls) serving sentences in the Rio de Janeiro State prison system in 1998. The analysis included exposure variables divided into three hierarchical levels: distal, intermediate, and pr...