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On 22 November 2006, the Crime and Society Foundation (CSF) published a report (Welfare and punishment: the relationship between welfare expenditure and levels of punishment). The report presents an analysis of welfare spending and imprisonment rates across 18 countries. It argues that the data implies that a substantial welfare state is increasingly a principal, if not the main, protection against the resort to mass imprisonment, in the era of globalisation.
The full report can be viewed on the CSF website