Making Corrections Work: It’s Time for a New Penology
Author: Francis T. Cullen.
Source: Volume 21, Number 01, Fall 2011 , pp.5-7(3)
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Abstract:
Delivered at one of the plenary sessions at the ICCA Research Conference in Cincinnati in September 2011, this article makes the case for a new penology that embraces what we have learned from research and practice. Cullen argues that criminological evidence is steadily mounting that a sanction that is exclusively punitive or control-oriented tends not to work well, that we are standing at a special time in corrections in which it is possible to move corrections in a fresh direction, that correctional workers must see themselves as part of a profession marked by a strong ethic of care and scientific expertise, and that to make corrections work by taking rehabilitation seriously, we will require the invention of what he calls “treatment paradigms.”Keywords: Limits of Punishment; Individualized Treatment; Progressive Classification
Affiliations:
1: University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice.