The Uses of Robert Martinson's Writings on Correctional Treatment: An Essay on the Justification of Correctional Policy

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
José E. Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Treatment ◽  
Correctional Policy

Public Support for Correctional Treatment: The Continuing Appeal of the Rehabilitative Ideal

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRANDON K. APPLEGATE ◽  
FRANCIS T. CULLEN ◽  
BONNIE S. FISHER
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Correctional Treatment ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Correctional Policy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Citizens Attitudes

For three decades, American correctional policy has focused on “getting tough” with offenders, and recent innovations continue this trend. It is unclear, however, that the public desires such a singularly punitive approach to crime. This study reports results from a statewide, contemporary assessment of citizens' attitudes toward rehabilitation. The results indicate that the public still believes that rehabilitation should be an integral part of correctional policy. Furthermore, support for a treatment approach is fairly consistent across demographic groups and across different types of questions used to tap citizens' views. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Intensifying the Incarceration of the Vulnerable Legal Subject: Correctional Treatment of Ashley Smith as a Source of Legal Norms

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 229-248
Author(s):  
Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick
Keyword(s):  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Vulnerability Analysis ◽  
Correctional Treatment ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Correctional Policy ◽  
Legal Sanctions ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
As If

Abstract Ashley Smith lived and died at a confluence of legal sanctions and correctional policy, norms, decisions, and indifference. This article approaches her incarceration primarily through a particular articulation of legal pluralism. Martha-Marie Kleinhans and Roderick A. Macdonald argue legal subjects should be understood as creating law in relationship with laws/norms. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) treated Smith as an excluded legal subject through practices of isolation, but the correctional norms evolving in relationship with her resultant distress simultaneously indicate CSC treated Smith as if she were effectively a law-producer, capable of changing policy. However, treating her as a source of norm-creation assumes equality/power Smith did not have. The story leading to Smith’s death in custody illustrates two primary themes regarding the production of law/norms. First, the legal subject within a critical legal pluralism should be widened to encompass those who act within/against (and are acted upon by) legal/normative systems characterized by extreme power disparities. Drawing on Martha Fineman’s vulnerability analysis, I argue such legal subjects should be understood/treated as vulnerable, implicating an enlarged role for institutions. Second, I follow the broad dictates of a critical legal pluralism to demonstrate how the reciprocally constitutive (though unequal) relationship between the legal subject and legal/normative orders manifested in Smith’s incarceration and attendant changes to correctional norms.

Correcting Correctional Treatment

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 900-901
Author(s):  
ROBERT F. MEIER
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Treatment

Neuropsychological and Emotional Deficits Predict Correctional Treatment Response

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Fishbein ◽  
Monica Scott ◽  
Christopher Hyde ◽  
David Newlin ◽  
Robert Hubal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Response ◽  
Correctional Treatment ◽  
Emotional Deficits

A Correctional Administrator's View of the Model Sentencing Act

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-403
Author(s):  
Sanger B. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Treatment

The Model Sentencing Act provides for the individualization of correctional treatment beginning at the point of sentencing. It would eliminate excessive and disparate sentences and unrea sonable restrictions on the use of probation or parole. All too often, such individualization as is now possible is attempted after the offender has been sentenced to an institution, even though probation might have been more appropriate in his case.

The Relationship of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Crime and Delinquency: A Meta-Analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis C. Pratt ◽  
Francis T. Cullen ◽  
Kristie R. Blevins ◽  
Leah Daigle ◽  
James D. Unnever
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Criminological Theory ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Delinquent Behaviour ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Correctional Policy ◽  
Crime And Delinquency

In recent years, criminologists have begun to focus more closely on how certain biosocial and/or neuropsychological factors may influence criminal and delinquent behaviour. One factor that is emerging as a potentially important correlate of such behaviour is Attention Deficit — often combined with hyperactivity — Disorder (ADD and/or ADHD). The results of the growing body of empirical literature assessing this link are, however, inconsistent. The present study subjects this body of research to a ‘meta-analysis' — or, ‘quantitative synthesis' — to establish both the overall effect of ADHD on crime and delinquency and the degree to which this relationship is conditioned by methodological factors across empirical studies. The analyses reveal a fairly strong association between measures of ADHD and criminal/delinquent behaviour. Nevertheless, these effects are not invariant across certain salient methodological characteristics. The implications for criminological theory and correctional policy are discussed.

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