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 inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duguid, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
Prisoners > Education.
Corrections > Philosophy.
Réhabilitation.
Prisonniers > Éducation.
Services correctionnels > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections > Philosophy
Criminals > Rehabilitation
Prisoners > Education
Strafvollzug
Psychologie
Exécution des peines > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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