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  • 022016

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  • Published 2006.
  • 8 pages.

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Welfare and Punishment: The Relationship Between Welfare Spending and Imprisonment

Publication year: 2006 | Cataloged on: Jan. 11, 2007
ANNOTATION: The relationship between welfare expenditure and imprisonment levels is examined. Sections of this briefing include: introduction; comparative analysis of cross-country welfare differences and what happens to a country's prison population when the proportion of GDP spent on welfare in a country changes; discussion; and a conclusion. Findings from this paper confirm that cuts in welfare result in higher incarceration rates.
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