Macro-economic determinants of penal policy: estimating the unemployment and inflation influences on imprisonment rate changes in the United States, 1948-1985

Conflict theory proposes that systemic economic distress generates problem populations which require control via palliative and coercive means. Most previous research has concentrated on examining the unemployment-imprisonment relationship. A review of the literature suggests that other structural c...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lessan, Gloria T. (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1991
In: Crime, law and social change
Jahr: 1991, Band: 16, Heft: 2, Seiten: 177-198
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Conflict Theory
Crime Rate
Imprisonment Rate
State Expenditure
Violent Crime