Sociology 2256A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: American Correctional Association, Bibliotherapy, Reinforcement
20 Mar 2016
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Chapter 11; the eicacy of treatment programs: planned, target malleable factors of an ofender"s personality and life circumstances that contributed to their criminality, employ techniques that use posiive reinforcement strategies to shape pro-social aitudes, behaviour and skills. Over-riding objecive of the cjs: enhance public safety by reducing criminal behaviour. Belief that ofenders should be reformed/ rehabilitated dates to the beginning of the 1800s. The genesis of ofender criminality laws in a combinaion of psychological and social factors: rehabilitaion should atempt to idenify those factors. 1954 american correcional associaion founded: prisons become known as correcional insituions, classiicaion systems introduced, prison-based treatment programs implemented. 1960s community correcions: parole made coningent upon the ofender making good progress in their treatment. 1975 american probaion and parole associaion est: treatment programs created that reported sizeable reducions in recidivism, criics found other wise ignored for the ime being (lipton)
