Can Prisons Work? : The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections /
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 inc...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The origins of curing crime and similar popular delusions
- 3. Insight wars : the struggle for the prisoner's mind and soul
- 4. Let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend
- 5. Reeling about : the era of opportunities
- 6. The return of the criminal as 'the enemy within'
- 7. A cold wind from the north, the medical model redux
- 8. From object to subject, the potential for a room of one's own within the prison.