crimeIn the 1970s in the United States, for example, rehabilitation programs were largely abandoned because of the widely held view that they did not reduce future criminal activity, and the death penalty was reinstated because of the pervasive sentiment that it did. By the beginning of the 21st century, however, support for capital punishment appeared to be weakening because of the belief that it...
prisonsU.S. penologist whose introduction of novel penal administrative policies helped to emphasize a rehabilitative role for prisons.
punishmentThe most recently formulated theory of punishment is that of rehabilitation—the idea that the purpose of punishment is to apply treatment and training to the offender so that he is made capable of returning to society and functioning as a law-abiding member of the community. Established in legal practice in the 19th century, rehabilitation was viewed as a humane alternative to retribution...
FalconerAmerican social worker who helped transform U.S. institutions for delinquent or displaced and homeless young women from fundamentally a system of incarceration to one based on rehabilitation.
Farnham CommonAmerican reformer and writer, an early advocate of the importance of rehabilitation as a focus of prison internment.
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