SOC371H5 Chapter Notes -Abusive Power And Control, Pseudoscience, Penology
Document Summary
Mona lynch: rehabilitation as rhetoric: the ideal of reformation in contemporary. Ideal of criminal reformation is fading, crime control in general is becoming a practice aimed at minimizing risk and danger, through pseudo-scientific management of offender populations. In 1977, at the end of california"s rehabilitative era, approximately 2000 parolees were returned to prison on violations. In 1995, the heart of punitive era, over 72000 violators were returned to prison and parole returns account for 53% of new arrivals to california prisons. New agents instructed in the initial training that the rehabilitative aspect of their job was a central one, although it was given second place in the training emphasis. While the agency laid of explicit goals of successful reintegration through traditional rehabilitative measures in its mission statement. Agents make depends that are in practical terms impossible to meet: for example, parolees were occasionally ordered to move from a residence due to some undesirable quality of that situation.
