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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 incarceration of criminals is a .fact. and the task of prisons is to isolate, deter, and punish and only then, perhaps reform the criminal. In .Can Prison Work?. Stephen Duguid contends that both critics and defenders of incarceration have erred in making the prisoner the object rather than the subject of their discourse; the critics see prisoners as victims of a monstrous institution and the defenders view them as incorrigibles persuaded only by coercion or manipulation. Duguid begins by reviewing the philosophical and cultural contexts that led to the idea of .curing. criminals (in addition to deterring crime) through treatment and incarceration, presenting diverse historical commentaries from Plato and Socrates to former inmates. The two dominant approaches to modern corrections are also discussed, the one based on sociology and the one based on psychology - the latter being seen as resp

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Author

Stephen Ralph Duguid

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442671676

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Education

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14