Can Prisons Work? : : The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections / / Stephen Ralph Duguid.

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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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index