Can Prisons Work?: The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections
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Can individuals be reformed or rehabilitated in the prison? A persistent body of work indicates that rehabilitation and/or reformation through incarceration is illusory. Exceptions, according to this view, are the result of accident, not design. For many practitioners in corrections systems, the incarceration of criminals is a "fact" and the task of prisons is to isolate, deter, and punish and only then, perhaps reform the criminal. In "Can Prison...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802048110
ISBN13:9780802048110
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.23 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 9.2"
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