Doing Time
Dynamics of Imprisonment in the Reformist State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4987232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Sutton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 612 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2095598 |
| OpenAlex | W2328648280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 34 |
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 systems effects. The empirical analysis focuses on the expansion of prisons and jails in the American states between 1880 and the early 1920s. Treating reform in terms of the adoption of probation, parole, and indeterminate sentencing legislation, and treating the social system as a store of resources likely to affect institutional expansion, the analysis pursues a series of dynamic additive and interactive models. The findings support the argument that reforms introduced discretion into the social control system and allowed official actors greater freedom to adjust their behavior to shifting bureaucratic and political constraints
Criminology · Dynamics (music · Imprisonment · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Mathematics · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |