John R Sutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 115689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Sutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutton |
| SIGNATURE | SUTTON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 820 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada
Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada
Symbol and Substance: Effects of California's Three Strikes Law on Felony Sentencing
California's "three strikes and you're out" law is the most notorious example of the wave of mandatory sentencing policies that many states enacted beginning in the late 1970s. While advocates and critics predicted the law would have profound effects on aggregate punishment trends and individual case outcomes, Feeley and Kamin's analysis of previous sentencing reforms suggested the law's impact would be mainly symbolic because local officials wou…
The Transformation of Prison Regimes in Late Capitalist Societies
Recent studies argue that cultural and political-economic shifts have led to a sea change in penal regimes among modern Western societies, resulting in more punitive social policies in general and a trend toward higher incarceration rates in particular. This is a special case of a wider argument that globalization has led to a decline in state autonomy and convergence on a market-based model of economic and social policy. This thesis has been cha…
Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants
The Political Economy of Imprisonment in Affluent Western Democracies, 1960-1990
Research showing an association between business cycles and imprisonment is suspect on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Most research on this topic uses an impoverished notion of business cycles and pays no attention to differences in the institutional contexts of economic policymaking. This article reexamines this issue using data from 15 affluent capitalist democracies observed over 30 years, from 1960 to 1990. Pooled regression techniqu…
Explaining Schism in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990
The remarkable degree of religious diversity in the United States is produced more through schisms and mergers occurring to preexisting denominations than through foundings of new religious groups. In this article we analyze schisms, focusing on mainstream Protestant denominations over the period 1890-1990. We treat schism as an organizational process rather than an expression of purely doctrinal disputes; more specifically, we argue that schisms…
Organizational Consolidation in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990
The religious sector in the United States is distinctive for the degree to which institutional change occurs not through the birth and death of organizations, but through mergers and schisms occurring among preexisting denominations. In this article we analyze mergers among mainstream Protestant denominations, as a means both to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of denominationalism and to broaden the field of discussion about organization…
Imprisonment and Social Classification in Five Common-Law Democracies, 1955-1985
Rates of imprisonment have risen in many Western democracies over the past few decades, most dramatically in the United States. The development of a systematic and general explanation of imprisonment trends has been impeded because of the theoretical and methodological limitations of prior quantitative studies. Most use data from a single country or jurisdiction and focus narrowly on the Rusche‐Kirchheimer “labor surplus” hypothesis, with little …
The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal policy has revolutionized employment rights
Rethinking Social Control
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Rethinking Social Control
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The Two Faces of Governance: Responses to Legal Uncertainty in U.S. Firms, 1955 to 1985
Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990.Jonathan Simon
Crime and Punishment in American History
The Legalization of the Workplace
This study uses longitudinal data on nearly 300 American employmers over the period 1955-85 to analyze the adoption of disciplinary hearings and grievance procedures for nonunion salaried and hourly emplyees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutional perspective that focuses, first, on uncertainty arisin from government mandates concerning equal employment opportunity and affirmative action and, second, on the role of the human relations pro…
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
Internal labor markets have been explained with efficiency and control arguments; however, retrospective event-history data from 279 organizations suggest that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law was the force behind the spread of formal promotion mechanisms after 1964. The findings highlight the way in which American public policy, with its broad outcome-oriented guidelines for organizations, stimulates managers to experiment with com…
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory. David Garland Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914. Martin J. Wiener
Increased vital and total lung capacities in Tibetan compared to Han residents of Lhasa (3,658 m)
Larger chest dimensions and lung volumes have been reported for Andean high‐altitude natives compared with sea‐level residents and implicated in raising lung diffusing capacity. Studies conducted in Nepal suggested that lifelong Himalayan residents did not have enlarged chest dimensions. To determine if high‐altitude Himalayans (Tibetans) had larger lung volumes than acclimatized newcomers (Han “Chinese”), we studied 38 Tibetan and 43 Han residen…
The Political Economy of Madness: The Expansion of the Asylum in Progressive America
In the United States between 1880 and the 1920s, unprecedented numbers of people were confined in mental hospitals, leading many contemporary observers to conclude that the nation was experiencing an epidemic of madness. I analyze the expansion of asylums as a product of organizational and political forces rather than an increase in insanity. The analysis is based on Grob's (1983) historical argument that asylums were forced to absorb increasing …
New Light on the Origins of the Asylum
Bureaucrats and Entrepreneurs: Institutional Responses to Deviant Children in the United States, 1890-1920s
Child welfare was a central item on the Progressive reform agenda. But contrary to the professed goals of leading reformers, institutions for delinquent and dependent children expanded rapidly around the turn of the century. Nationwide, private agencies gres faster than those in the public sector. This article attemps to account both for the general rise in juvenile incarceration and for the trend toward privatization. It begins by exploring pote…
The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada. Theresa R. Richardson
Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
Internal labor markets have been explained with efficiency and control arguments; however, retrospective event-history data from 279 organizations suggest that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law was the force behind the spread of formal promotion mechanisms after 1964. The findings highlight the way in which American public policy, with its broad outcome-oriented guidelines for organizations, stimulates managers to experiment with com…
The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal policy has revolutionized employment rights
The Political Economy of Imprisonment in Affluent Western Democracies, 1960-1990
Research showing an association between business cycles and imprisonment is suspect on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Most research on this topic uses an impoverished notion of business cycles and pays no attention to differences in the institutional contexts of economic policymaking. This article reexamines this issue using data from 15 affluent capitalist democracies observed over 30 years, from 1960 to 1990. Pooled regression techniqu…
The Legalization of the Workplace
This study uses longitudinal data on nearly 300 American employmers over the period 1955-85 to analyze the adoption of disciplinary hearings and grievance procedures for nonunion salaried and hourly emplyees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutional perspective that focuses, first, on uncertainty arisin from government mandates concerning equal employment opportunity and affirmative action and, second, on the role of the human relations pro…
Imprisonment and Social Classification in Five Common-Law Democracies, 1955-1985
Rates of imprisonment have risen in many Western democracies over the past few decades, most dramatically in the United States. The development of a systematic and general explanation of imprisonment trends has been impeded because of the theoretical and methodological limitations of prior quantitative studies. Most use data from a single country or jurisdiction and focus narrowly on the Rusche‐Kirchheimer “labor surplus” hypothesis, with little …
The Two Faces of Governance: Responses to Legal Uncertainty in U.S. Firms, 1955 to 1985
Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants
Increased vital and total lung capacities in Tibetan compared to Han residents of Lhasa (3,658 m)
Larger chest dimensions and lung volumes have been reported for Andean high‐altitude natives compared with sea‐level residents and implicated in raising lung diffusing capacity. Studies conducted in Nepal suggested that lifelong Himalayan residents did not have enlarged chest dimensions. To determine if high‐altitude Himalayans (Tibetans) had larger lung volumes than acclimatized newcomers (Han “Chinese”), we studied 38 Tibetan and 43 Han residen…
The Political Economy of Madness: The Expansion of the Asylum in Progressive America
In the United States between 1880 and the 1920s, unprecedented numbers of people were confined in mental hospitals, leading many contemporary observers to conclude that the nation was experiencing an epidemic of madness. I analyze the expansion of asylums as a product of organizational and political forces rather than an increase in insanity. The analysis is based on Grob's (1983) historical argument that asylums were forced to absorb increasing …
The problem of control in the weak state: Domination in the United States, 1880?1920
Exploring the Social Sources of Denominationalism: Schisms in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1980
Schisms are a major source of new religious denominations in America, but have received little attention in the sociological literature. This study is critical of the conventional assumption that schisms arise primarily from internal doctrinal disputes. Drawing on the resource mobilization literature, we offer an alternative argument that vulnerability to schism is related to the organizational characteristics of denominations. We apply dynamic q…
Symbol and Substance: Effects of California's Three Strikes Law on Felony Sentencing
California's "three strikes and you're out" law is the most notorious example of the wave of mandatory sentencing policies that many states enacted beginning in the late 1970s. While advocates and critics predicted the law would have profound effects on aggregate punishment trends and individual case outcomes, Feeley and Kamin's analysis of previous sentencing reforms suggested the law's impact would be mainly symbolic because local officials wou…
Explaining Schism in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990
The remarkable degree of religious diversity in the United States is produced more through schisms and mergers occurring to preexisting denominations than through foundings of new religious groups. In this article we analyze schisms, focusing on mainstream Protestant denominations over the period 1890-1990. We treat schism as an organizational process rather than an expression of purely doctrinal disputes; more specifically, we argue that schisms…
Doing Time: Dynamics of Imprisonment in the Reformist State
Most explanations of official social control point either toward reform movements or the imperatives of the social system as dominantly influencing imprisonment rates, with little attempt to integrate these distinct casual processes. This study aims to disentangle these effects by arguing that the strategic behavior of official state actors plays an intervening role in the punishment process that determines the relative salience of reform and sys…
Bureaucrats and Entrepreneurs: Institutional Responses to Deviant Children in the United States, 1890-1920s
Child welfare was a central item on the Progressive reform agenda. But contrary to the professed goals of leading reformers, institutions for delinquent and dependent children expanded rapidly around the turn of the century. Nationwide, private agencies gres faster than those in the public sector. This article attemps to account both for the general rise in juvenile incarceration and for the trend toward privatization. It begins by exploring pote…
The Transformation of Prison Regimes in Late Capitalist Societies
Recent studies argue that cultural and political-economic shifts have led to a sea change in penal regimes among modern Western societies, resulting in more punitive social policies in general and a trend toward higher incarceration rates in particular. This is a special case of a wider argument that globalization has led to a decline in state autonomy and convergence on a market-based model of economic and social policy. This thesis has been cha…
The Juvenile Court and Social Welfare: Dynamics of Progressive Reform
This analysis of the juvenile court movement is critical of both functionalist and social movement interpretations. Following Meyer and Rowan (1977) and Hagan et al. (1979), I suggest that the juvenile court was not a substantive reform but served primarily to extend conventional means of child-control through the legitimizing vocabulary of Progressivism. Descriptive analysis of state statutes shows the derivative, ambiguous nature of the juvenil…
Organizational Autonomy and Professional Norms in Science: A Case Study of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Functionalist theories in the sociology of science suggest that applied research organizations, insofar as they violate professional norms of research autonomy, professional recognition and open communication, also violate the epistemological and methodological requirements of successful research. The analysis presented here, based on interviews with scientists at a major US nuclear weapons laboratory (the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory), suggests…
Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe
The authors give the background of the current situation by summarising the evolution of the GATT and cataloguing the principle measures of protection currently being applied by the community and its member states
Social Structure, Institutions, and the Legal Status of Children in the United States
This paper presents an analysis of the development of state juvenile codes in the United States in the 19th century. The central phenomenon examined is the legal differentiation of adults and children through the creation of unique deviant statuses for children and the denial of procedural rights as a requirement for their incarceation. A variant of legal evolution theory, based on a model suggested by Turner, is used to explore the determinants …
Some Determinants of Women's Trade Union Membership
Organizational Consolidation in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990
The religious sector in the United States is distinctive for the degree to which institutional change occurs not through the birth and death of organizations, but through mergers and schisms occurring among preexisting denominations. In this article we analyze mergers among mainstream Protestant denominations, as a means both to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of denominationalism and to broaden the field of discussion about organization…
Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
Some Determinants of Women's Trade Union Membership
Social Structure, Institutions, and the Legal Status of Children in the United States
This paper presents an analysis of the development of state juvenile codes in the United States in the 19th century. The central phenomenon examined is the legal differentiation of adults and children through the creation of unique deviant statuses for children and the denial of procedural rights as a requirement for their incarceation. A variant of legal evolution theory, based on a model suggested by Turner, is used to explore the determinants …
Organizational Autonomy and Professional Norms in Science: A Case Study of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Functionalist theories in the sociology of science suggest that applied research organizations, insofar as they violate professional norms of research autonomy, professional recognition and open communication, also violate the epistemological and methodological requirements of successful research. The analysis presented here, based on interviews with scientists at a major US nuclear weapons laboratory (the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory), suggests…
The Juvenile Court and Social Welfare: Dynamics of Progressive Reform
This analysis of the juvenile court movement is critical of both functionalist and social movement interpretations. Following Meyer and Rowan (1977) and Hagan et al. (1979), I suggest that the juvenile court was not a substantive reform but served primarily to extend conventional means of child-control through the legitimizing vocabulary of Progressivism. Descriptive analysis of state statutes shows the derivative, ambiguous nature of the juvenil…
Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe
The authors give the background of the current situation by summarising the evolution of the GATT and cataloguing the principle measures of protection currently being applied by the community and its member states
Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe
Journal Article Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe Get access Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe. By JOAN PEARCE and JOHN SUTTON. (Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1985. Pp. viii + 220. à £16.00 hardback.) D. Swann D. Swann Loughborough University of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 385, 1 Marc…
Doing Time: Dynamics of Imprisonment in the Reformist State
Most explanations of official social control point either toward reform movements or the imperatives of the social system as dominantly influencing imprisonment rates, with little attempt to integrate these distinct casual processes. This study aims to disentangle these effects by arguing that the strategic behavior of official state actors plays an intervening role in the punishment process that determines the relative salience of reform and sys…
Multi-Nationals and World Trade
Exploring the Social Sources of Denominationalism: Schisms in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1980
Schisms are a major source of new religious denominations in America, but have received little attention in the sociological literature. This study is critical of the conventional assumption that schisms arise primarily from internal doctrinal disputes. Drawing on the resource mobilization literature, we offer an alternative argument that vulnerability to schism is related to the organizational characteristics of denominations. We apply dynamic q…
Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change
Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
The problem of control in the weak state: Domination in the United States, 1880?1920
New Light on the Origins of the Asylum
Bureaucrats and Entrepreneurs: Institutional Responses to Deviant Children in the United States, 1890-1920s
Child welfare was a central item on the Progressive reform agenda. But contrary to the professed goals of leading reformers, institutions for delinquent and dependent children expanded rapidly around the turn of the century. Nationwide, private agencies gres faster than those in the public sector. This article attemps to account both for the general rise in juvenile incarceration and for the trend toward privatization. It begins by exploring pote…
The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada. Theresa R. Richardson
Increased vital and total lung capacities in Tibetan compared to Han residents of Lhasa (3,658 m)
Larger chest dimensions and lung volumes have been reported for Andean high‐altitude natives compared with sea‐level residents and implicated in raising lung diffusing capacity. Studies conducted in Nepal suggested that lifelong Himalayan residents did not have enlarged chest dimensions. To determine if high‐altitude Himalayans (Tibetans) had larger lung volumes than acclimatized newcomers (Han “Chinese”), we studied 38 Tibetan and 43 Han residen…
The Political Economy of Madness: The Expansion of the Asylum in Progressive America
In the United States between 1880 and the 1920s, unprecedented numbers of people were confined in mental hospitals, leading many contemporary observers to conclude that the nation was experiencing an epidemic of madness. I analyze the expansion of asylums as a product of organizational and political forces rather than an increase in insanity. The analysis is based on Grob's (1983) historical argument that asylums were forced to absorb increasing …
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory. David Garland Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914. Martin J. Wiener
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
Internal labor markets have been explained with efficiency and control arguments; however, retrospective event-history data from 279 organizations suggest that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law was the force behind the spread of formal promotion mechanisms after 1964. The findings highlight the way in which American public policy, with its broad outcome-oriented guidelines for organizations, stimulates managers to experiment with com…
Crime and Punishment in American History
The Legalization of the Workplace
This study uses longitudinal data on nearly 300 American employmers over the period 1955-85 to analyze the adoption of disciplinary hearings and grievance procedures for nonunion salaried and hourly emplyees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutional perspective that focuses, first, on uncertainty arisin from government mandates concerning equal employment opportunity and affirmative action and, second, on the role of the human relations pro…
Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990.Jonathan Simon
Rethinking Social Control
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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