This study looked at the impact of marginal and surplus labor on criminal punishment. The primary objectives of this study were: (1) to provide a more comprehensive assessment of the relationship between surplus labor and criminal punishment than traditional studies of unemployment and imprisonment by going beyond the traditional formulation of unemployment and imprisonment to include other measures of marginal labor and additional measures of punishment, (2) to disaggregate the L-P relationship to the level of decision making, (3) to assess the possible existence of tradeoffs between punishment and other social control institutions and (4) to assess the L-P relationship under the broader contexts of recession vs recovery and pre- vs post-sentencing guidelines. / The findings indicate that unemployment does predict prison and probation admissions. No support for the trade-off thesis was found. The most significant predictor of punishment rates was the percent of young, black males in the population. These results imply a need to re-evaluate the theoretical premises of state theory and moral panic. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3375. / Major Professor: Theodore G. Chiricos. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76720 |
| Contributors | DeLone, Miriam Anne., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 177 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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