The myth of rehabilitation

The myth of rehabilitation

  • Autor: Jones, Paul A.
  • Editor: Scripta Humanistica
  • Col·lecció: Health Sciences
  • ISBN: 1882528344
  • Lloc de publicació:  Potomac , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2000
  • Pàgines: 105
  • Idioma: Anglés

While working with prison systems, work release programs, mental hospitals, and alternative settings in the public schools, it has become clear to this author that the almost universally accepted idea of rehabilitating criminal offenders is basically false, a myth. The author argues that we need to stop wasting time and money on current forms of rehabilitating criminals and adopt less-traditional methods.

  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. REHABILITATION
    • A. The Belief in Rehabilitation
    • B. What is Rehabilitation
    • C. My Experience with Rehabilitation
  • II. SOCIOPATHS
    • A. Who Are They
    • B. How They Get That Way
    • C. The Futility of Treating Them
  • III. DO-GOODERS—The Semi-Sociopath
    • A. Every Prison Has Them
    • B. What Makes A Do-Gooder
    • C. Keeping Them Away
  • IV. BRAIN MAPPING, GENETICS, AND DNA BANKS
    • A. Brain Mapping–Problems
    • B. Genetics and Violence
    • C. DNA Banks
  • V. MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS
    • A. Meanness, Cruelty and Sadism
    • B. Bad Cops and Prisons
    • C. Punishment
  • VI. THE DEATH PENALTY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY