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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.